Jane Austen @ 250 Ep. 5: Miss Austen Gets Controversial (Mansfield Park)

Two hundred and fifty years ago in the English county of Hampshire, on a snowy December day, a baby girl was born. That baby would grow up to be Jane Austen, and she would go on to write six iconic novels that would forever change literary history.

This is episode 5 of JANE AUSTEN @ 250, a series from the 2am Book Review Club celebrating the life and work of Jane Austen.

Important note: the historical facts used in the introduction are pulled from Lucy Worsley's Jane Austen at Home, which I wasn't properly able to attribute in the episode, so I'm doing it here. Thanks as always to this biography, which has been so crucial in putting this series together!

Musical Credits:

Contredanse No. 2, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Concerto No. 5, 1st movement, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

All other music comes from pixabay.

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