History & The Arts
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
...mode; her face is averted, her shoulder turned to the viewer, and her arm cast protectively across her work. There is, in short, something unusually shifty about this depiction of a writer, and it is confirmed by the image of the house to the left of the portrait. This is not an image of Chawton Cottage, the place where Austen lived with her mother and sister between 1809...