JANE AUSTEN AND HER TIMES BY THE SAME AUTHOR A BACHELOR GIRL IN LONDON THE GIFTS OF ENEMIES THE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF LONDON [Illustration: MORNING EMPLOYMENTS] JANE AUSTEN AND HER TIMES BY G. E. MITTON WITH TWENTY-ONE ILLUSTRATIONS METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _First Published in 1905_ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. PRELIMINARY AND DISCURSIVE 1 II. CHILDHOOD 22 III. THE POSITION OF THE CLERGY 34 IV. HOME LIFE AT STEVENTON 49 V. THE NOVELS 80 VI. LETTERS AND POST 105 VII. SOCIETY AND LOVE-MAKING 117 VIII. VISITS AND TRAVELING 148 IX. CONTEMPORARY WRITERS 161 X. A TRIO OF NOVELS 176 XI. THE NAVY 196 XII. BATH 212 XIII. DRESS AND FASHIONS 229 XIV. AT SOUTHAMPTON 249 XV. CHAWTON 266 XVI. IN LONDON 278 XVII. FANNY AND ANNA 296 XVIII. THE PRINCE REGENT AND _EMMA_ 303 XIX. LAST DAYS 313 INDEX 327 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MORNING EMPLOYMENTS _Frontispiece_ From a Painting by BUNBURY. THE REV. GEORGE AUSTEN _Facing page_ 16 From a Family Miniature. THE REV. JAMES AUSTEN „ „ 16 From a Family Miniature. JUVENILE RETIREMENT „ „ 26 From a Painting by JOHN HOPPNER. THE VICAR RECEIVING HIS TITHES „ „ 42 From a Drawing by H. SINGLETON. JANE AUSTEN „ „ 58 From a Portrait by her Sister CASSANDRA. THE HAPPY COTTAGERS „ „ 74 From a Painting by GEORGE MORLAND. MISS BURNEY (MADAME D’ARBLAY) „ „ 96 From a Portrait by EDWARD BURNEY. FROM A SUMMER’S EVENING „ „ 156 From a Drawing by DE LOUTHERBOURG.