18132 Music Film and Theatre Why do we still spend

Why do we still spend so much time and energy studying the period 1760-1830

Among the balls and pleasure excursions

Analyzes the novels to decipher the principles upon which Jane Austen based her writing

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Still enclosed in publisher's plastic cover

18132 Music Film and Theatre Why do we still spendIn Austen's time, was "every man surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies"? There were certainly spies. This book dives into the story of Britain's spies, rebels, and secret societies between the late 1780's and 1820. British upper classes feared overthrow of their own government might follow events in France and elsewhere, and were happy to fund an expensive "secret service" of double agents and spies. The stakes were high, as treason merited