Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Although Jane Austen's novels are filled with captains and soldiers and militias, there is little mention of the places that they disappear to in between being called upon for balls. Austen-land takes no notice of the Napoleonic wars, or of Canada, or the dying embers of slave trade, or colonies in the East and West Indies and Australia.
And, by and larg…
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