Joana Starnes lives in the south of England with her family.
A medical graduate, over the years she has developed an unrelated but enduring fascination with
Georgian Britain in general and the works of Jane Austen in particular, as well as with the remarkable
and flamboyant set of people who have given the Regency period its brilliance and glory.
For years, Joana has sought glimpses of Regency Britain in country houses, letters, diaries and old books - and has found tantalising snippets from a world Jane Austen and her characters would have recognised, with titbits of delicious gossip, long-held traditions, hints of fashion, echoes of events that would change history, as well as glances into the lost world of the English country house, in all its self-sufficient splendour.
All this, Joana would like to share with her readers, in the hope that they would enjoy the journey
back in time in search of Pemberley just as much as she does.
A medical graduate, over the years she has developed an unrelated but enduring fascination with
Georgian Britain in general and the works of Jane Austen in particular, as well as with the remarkable
and flamboyant set of people who have given the Regency period its brilliance and glory.
For years, Joana has sought glimpses of Regency Britain in country houses, letters, diaries and old books - and has found tantalising snippets from a world Jane Austen and her characters would have recognised, with titbits of delicious gossip, long-held traditions, hints of fashion, echoes of events that would change history, as well as glances into the lost world of the English country house, in all its self-sufficient splendour.
All this, Joana would like to share with her readers, in the hope that they would enjoy the journey
back in time in search of Pemberley just as much as she does.
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MY FRIEND JANE
MY FRIEND JANE
