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"I have just learnt to love a hyacinth": Jane Austen's heroines in their novelistic landscape.(Conference Papers)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20020101
Author:Wenner, Barbara

 
   She was a warm and judicious admirer of landscape, both in nature 
   and on canvas. At a very early age she was enamoured of Gilpin on 
   the Picturesque; and she seldom changed her opinions either on 
   books or men.

--Henry Austen ("Biographical Notice")

EVEN AS A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL, Jane Austen had a sharp appreciation of landscape and landscape art. When we read "Evelyn" and see Jane Austen's mildly satirical view of "perhaps one of the most beautiful Spots in the south of England" (MW 180), we can smile at the hero Mr. Gower's enchantment with a house in "the ...

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