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Jane Austen and the English landscape
Jane Austen and the English landscape | Mavis Batey
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This is a fully illustrated study of Jane Austen's familiar rural background and the various responses of herself and her heroines to the beauties of landscape and the improvement of estates.
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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Jane Austen and the English landscape | Mavis Batey
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Interesting reading on History of Gardening and how it applies to Jane Austen novels.👩‍🌾
#chawton
#englishgardendreams
#austeninaugustextras

PurpleyPumpkin This does sound interesting... stacked! 📚 5y
Crinoline_Laphroaig @PurpleyPumpkin It was! But then I'm a Gardener with a Jane Austen obsession. 5y
PurpleyPumpkin Okay, so TWINS! Love both gardening and JA.👍🏽 5y
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
Crinoline_Laphroaig
Jane Austen and the English landscape | Mavis Batey
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After visiting Chatsworth and Lyme Park, I often mused which one was the Inspiration for Pemberley this quote seems to answer:
"Chatsworth has been suggested for Pemberley, because Jane Austen teasingly placed it in the vicinity of Bakewell, but Darcy was no Duke of Devonshire and Chatsworth could not be kept up even on £10,000 a year."
? @ Chatsworth
#pemberley #chatsworth
#austeninaugustextras

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Crinoline_Laphroaig
Crinoline_Laphroaig
Jane Austen and the English landscape | Mavis Batey
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I can just imagine Mr. and Mrs. Darcy strolling through the Italian Garden at Pemberley, I mean Lyme Park.
#lymeparkorwasitpemberley
#englishgardendreams
#austeninaugust2019

Erofan 😍 5y
Lreads Amazing! 😍 5y
mabell Just gorgeous ❤️ 5y
Crinoline_Laphroaig @Erofan @QuietlyLaura @mabell The Husband did a great job on pictures of my Austen Adventures. 5y
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