Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir

Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

Rory Muir

400 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons--men of good family but small fortune In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance,...

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