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What Jane Austen learned from her brothers

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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20010122
Author:TOM POCOCK

JANE AUSTEN AND THE NAVY by Brian Southam (Hambledon, 19.95)

READING Jane Austen's novels, it is easy to forget that, while she was writing, her country was fighting what she called the Great War with Napoleonic France. The two subsequent world wars involved the entire population, yet her characters usually seem almost untouched by such worry or hardship. She introduces a few naval officers, either on leave or with their careers as a subject for speculation, but otherwise it can seem that Austen was deliberately looking the other way.

That naval officers do appear is not surprising because ...

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