Историко-культурный контекст
Какую книгу в двух томах нашла про Англию периода Regency. Хочется лучше понимать романы Джейн Остин, поэтому много читаю про её время, культуру.
Social England under the Regency by John Ashton .
В книге много карикатур, рисунков того времени из газет, журналов. Раньше много читала про события с нашей стороны океана, но с британской стороны не менее интересно. Про безумие короля смотрела документальный фильм Lucy Worsley на PBS, и сериал про президента Джона Адамса во время Американской революции.
Нашла с трудом биографию автора и удивилась, что иллюстрации не копии старинных рисунков , а оригинальные рисунки автора в стиле Regency. Книга эта не исследование, а множество выписок из оригинальных документов о бытовых деталях жизни обычных людей. Это как раз то, что мне нужно. Комментарии Ю.М.Лотмана были отличной читательской школой для подростка.
By 1895, John Ashton was known to be living at 4 Middleton Road (now Grove Road), in Islington, an area of north-west London, where he would reside for the rest of his life. Ashton never married and it is assumed he took bachelor rooms in this rather dreary neighborhood off Camden Road. There were many struggling authors residing in that district at this time, living frugally in furnished rooms and travelling about London by the low-cost omnibus or walking if the distance was short enough. John Ashton’s books sold well, but in those days, authors did not receive the same level of remuneration that they do today, especially for non-fiction work. His publisher would have reaped the bulk of the profits, leaving Ashton with a meager income, which, if he were economical, would have provided him with the necessities of life, but few luxuries. But perhaps John Ashton did not mind very much, as he spent the bulk of his days researching what interested him, immersing himself in the lives and worlds of Englishmen and women of bygone days.