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Jon Stobart
Jon Stobart is Professor of Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has written on a variety of subjects in the history of retailing and consumption in the long eighteenth century, including the grocery trade, polite shopping, auctions of second-hand household goods, and the consumption practices of country house owners. His most recent book focuses on the lifestyles and homes of the parish clergy in Georgian England.
Courses
This day event in Oxford will look at middle class women’s lives in Jane Austen’s England: the books they read, the things they consumed, their domestic accomplishments and their involvement with the outside world via the law.