Pen Vogler examines the importance of food and dining in Jane Austen's fiction. ... read more
But the “secret weapon” of any food-obsessed Jane Austen devotee is, Vogler says, Austen's friend Martha Lloyd: “Martha lived with Jane, Cassandra and Mrs Austen in Chawton, where Jane spent the end of her life. read more
Jane Austen Pride and partridges: Jane Austen and food Mrs Bennet uses it to impress, Emma to care for her father and a distraught Marianne Dashwood refuses it all together. read more