"Davidson reveals that the wearer of the pelisse could have been up to five foot eight, certainly no less than five foot six inches tall," writes Hughes. "At a time when the average woman stood at a smidge over five feet, Jane Austen wasn't simply tall; she was gigantic."
Both Jane Austen and the world depicted in her novels are enduringly popular. Where does this abiding fascination with Austen come from? Kathryn Hughes: I think of Austenland as a planet that travels around our own in an elliptical orbit: it comes close for a while until it continues its loop and gets farther away.
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