![]() ![]() The girls are involved in various real life episodes, like Mrs Leigh-Perrot’s arrest on a charge of shop-lifting and her subsequent trial. Jenny’s diary is interspersed with Jane’s witty observations – based heavily on her Juvenilia. What I enjoyed about this book is that Cora Harrison has plainly done her research – but deploys it with a light touch. Jenny realizes that Harry is in love with Jane – but does Jane return his affection? She enlists the aid of Harry Digweed, a young man she’s known all her life. She has met Newton Wallop, heir to an earldom, and she rather fancies being a countess. ![]() Jane, meanwhile, has her own love life to consider. Distraught, Jenny confides in her cousin. When handsome Captain Thomas Williams falls in love with Jenny and asks for her hand in marriage, Augusta bullies her husband into forbidding it. Jenny is an orphan and, except when invited to stay with the Austens, lives with her brother Edward-John, a meek man who is hen-pecked by his mean-minded wife, Augusta. This lively story, based loosely on 15-year-old Jane Austen’s visit to her Leigh-Perrot relations in Bath in 1791, tells of Jane and her 17-year-old cousin Jenny’s adventures there, as seen through Jenny’s diary. ![]()
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