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... Year Austen Literary history Political history 29 ... March – Mrs ... Leigh Perrot tried at Taunton and acquitted October – Edward Austen visits Steventon and takes Cassandra back to Godmersham with him via Chawton and London End of November–mid-December – Jane Austen ... Austen decides to retire and move to Bath ? – Austen revises and completes Sir Charles Grandison Publication of Maria Edgeworth's novel Castle ...
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“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
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first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-up
daughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider
everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for
love, if they can.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)