![]() ![]() I’ve taken advantage of her quiet years growing up in Steventon as the setting for my novels. ![]() Many biographies cover her childhood, and we have her juvenilia and letters starting from her teenage years. We know a huge amount about Jane’s childhood, despite some significant gaps in the correspondence that provide most of the details. My story is about the young Jane’s having thoughts about somebody, and then what you learn about them. I know it very well - I used to walk along it every day with my dog. ![]() It’s set in Oxford, where Jane visits her brother in 1790, when the canal, dug by convicts, was finished. Last Saturday, 28 January, was the 210th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and I’ve just published the third novel in my Jane Austen Investigates series: The Convicts’ Canal. ![]()
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