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Previous biographies have set Jane Austen within her social context. This biography places her firmly within her professional context as one of an increasing number of women who published novels between 1790 and 1820. Being a professional writer was, apart from her family, more important to Austen than anything else in her life.
Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels,
but no one really knows who read them. This study provides
historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms
of fiction--novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and
magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five
market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three
hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new
information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds
of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England.
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