A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth-century ideas and the current of contemporary thought. Margaret Kirkham shows that Jane Austen's views on the status of women, female education, marriage, the family and the representation of women in literature were remarkably similar to thsoe of feminists in her own day. Margaret Kirkham was formerly a lecturer at Bristol Polytechnic.
- ISBN10 0710807503
- ISBN13 9780710807502
- Publish Date 15 March 1984 (first published 1 January 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Prentice Hall Europe (a Pearson Education company)
- Imprint Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English