Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen

«The author has undoubtedly carried out a thorough re-evaluation and interpretation of property ownership and its multiple manifestations.» (Hazel Jones, The Jane Austen Society, August 2023) «In this brilliant study of Jane Austen’s fiction, Rita J. Dashwood deftly illuminates the complexity of women’s relationships to nineteenth-century property, by considering not only houses and estates, but law, inheritance, management, interior spaces, and feelings. Women and Property Ownership in Jane Aus