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Brothers in arms fired imagination; Jane Austen and the Navy. By Brian Southam. (Hambledon and London, pounds 19.95). Reviewed by Christine Barker.(Books)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20010210
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Byline: Christine Barker

'All the nice girls love a sailor . . .' we all know the music hall ditty with its saucy overtones and hints of 'wives' in every port.

But you never think that Jane Austen, a delicate spinster daughter of the church, creator of novels of genius about the gentry of 19th Century England, and perhaps the most correct feminist of her generation, might have had a deep knowledge of what went on in His Majesty's ships during the Napoleonic Wars.

She did of course, through two of her brothers who fought against Napoleon's navy and both went on to ...

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