Victoria Huxley, who lives in Adlestrop, has opened a new window on the Cotswolds family of Jane Austen, and their influence on her work.
Austen visited her Leigh cousins several times and it was here that she first heard of Repton’s garden designs, which transformed the landscape of Adlestrop House, and may have inspired the setting of Mansfield Park.
Jane Austen & Adlestrop (Windrush, £10.99) is painstakingly researched but interestingly written, highlighting other echoes of the village and its surrounding countryside in Austen’s letters and in novels.
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