Jane Austen

Jane AustenOn a sunny September morning more than a century ago, a horse and buggy bearing two sisters wound its way past green pastures and wooded hills to the narrow streets of a Hampshire village. Constance and Ellen Hill, a pair of passionate admirers of Jane Austen, sat prepared to take the first steps in retracing the life of their idol. This charmingly written and illustrated account of their literary pilgrimage begins in Steventon, Jane Austen's

handsewing

from the construction of Cantor Sets to the design of concert halls" — Physics Today

assessments

printing was a handcraft — and it still is

paintbrushes

elegant enchantress

belt buckles

and it has remained for Professor Morris Kline to describe the simultaneous growth of mathematics and the physical sciences in this remarkable book

wrought iron balconies

" and "The Goatherd" (the inspiration for Washington Irving’s story of Rip van Winkle)

acoustical relaxation

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