17432 Austen Contemporaries A book Jane Auten owned

A book Jane Auten owned and read before she wrote First Impressions

Endnotes and extensive bibliography

This copy is like new

List at $34

Slothouber's book is entertaining and instructive and brings to light new material about the Austen family's life as well as the economic facts of the time

17432 Austen Contemporaries A book Jane Auten ownedAfter giving us a history of Western medicine, especially how death was handled, Salomone then focuses on misdiagnoses of death in 18th century Britain. This is so interesting. She did research to find out how often it really happened. So we have statistics now. And then we get some folklore and how this premature burial nightmare inspired authors like Coleridge, Byron, and Stoker (vampires!). Sleep well tonight, readers. McFarland & Company, Inc.