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Jane Austen and Leisure, PDF eBook

Jane Austen and Leisure PDF

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Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work.

Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working.

Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure.

Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness.

The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.

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