little miss austin

She is not very charming, and has reached the age of marriage, Prince George hopes to find a suitable husband for the Crown Prince of England in Europe, he must have the title of prince.

Princess Charlotte is very precocious. When she was 14 or 5 years old, she fell in love with George Fitzclarence, the eldest son of her uncle, the Duke of Clarence, but Fitzclarence was an illegitimate child. Soon, the young man fell in love Sent out to join the Army, now in the Iberian Peninsula, under General Wesley;

Later, Princess Charlotte fell in love with Charles Hesse, the son of another uncle, the Duke of York. Hesse was handsome, but unfortunately, he was only an illegitimate son. Hesse was also stuffed into the army and joined the dragoons The Legion is also currently under General Wesley.

The Prince of Wales set his sights on several European countries that share the same Germanic nation as Hanover, and wanted to choose a suitable prince from them, and because Princess Charlotte was the second in line to the throne, Prince George and the House of Commons hoped to be The other prince came to England.Prince George took a fancy to Prince William of Orange. Prince William is 21 years old. He grew up in England since he was a child. He returned to Berlin when he was a teenager, and returned to England to study at Oxford University as an adult. Prince William is also on the Iberian Peninsula , one of General Wesley's adjutants.

Prince William is a young man with a chaotic private life. He is not taboo about men and women. He has been threatened and blackmailed many times during Oxford University, which is well known in the upper class.

It is not surprising that young men in the upper class talk about Prince William's messy affairs in a normal way, and Prince William doesn't think there is any problem with a chaotic private life, let alone a prodigal like Byron. problem.

He also took the opportunity to brainwash Alice, saying that young men can do whatever they want if they have money, good looks, or status. These three things don't need to be juxtaposed, one is enough.

Alice could not refute.

What he said is indeed correct. This society is dominated by men, and it is very difficult for women to live a more relaxed life. Just like her, it is okay for Byron not to want to get married. No one will ask him "why", but if she said Not wanting to get married, almost everyone wants to know "why".How can there be "fairness" at all!

"Are you upset again?"

"—I'm a little unhappy, but..." She sighed, "You are indeed right, this world is a man's world, men have as many rights as possible, and women's rights are given to her by men, no matter what Whether it comes from the will of a man. It is difficult for a woman to be herself, let alone anything else."

"This is how the world works. Just like you can't resist the pressure to get engaged publicly now, you will also give in in the future, agree to get married, agree to have children. Look! Since you can't avoid the same fate as other women, So why can't you try to make yourself as happy as possible now? Whether it's me, Ivo, or the French guy who keeps writing to you, as long as you want, you can have it all."

"Can a woman be the same as a man?" She rolled his eyes at him. "You can have hundreds of lovers and mistresses, and those husbands won't come to duel with a bastard like you. And your reputation is nothing important." Loss. I... I can't, I dare not."

"You still like me a lot, don't you?"

"I hate you to death!" She gave him a hard look.

"But you haven't hated me yet, have you?"

"I don't know what you want to say."

"I told Ivo that he can secretly take you away and take you abroad, so that after a few years you have a child, you have to marry him. Oliver is so angry that he can't help it." He said coldly and proudly: "Is this a good idea?"

Really let your uncle fart!

Alice was so angry that she stood up, "If he dares to do this, I will stab him to death with a knife, and then I will stab you to death!"

Sitting in the carriage, she was still angry: Byron, this guy!How dare you come up with such a bad idea!Fortunately, Ivo is an upright person, he will definitely not do what Byron said.

She was very resentful, but she couldn't do anything to him, after all, it was just a "proposal", not a "crime", not even preparation work, not even an "attempted crime" or "premeditated crime".

The first trial version of "Women of the Times" was successfully launched.Female readers are very quick to accept this new media rich in pictures and texts. The first issue of the latest French fashion feature introduces the latest popular styles of women's clothing, men's clothing and children's clothing. It uses a lot of pictures and specially finds an artist to draw fashion pictures.There is no offset paper or coated paper, so we can only use the best and smoothest printing paper on the market; the cover adopts the general form of fashion magazines of later generations, with the title at the top, big and eye-catching; and the characters on the cover of the current issue are also specially searched for. Portrait painters specialize in drawing.

The cover of the first issue featured General Wesley, the cover of the second issue George Byron, and the cover of the third issue Susan Hamilton.

Three issues of the trial version are produced together, 6 of the 3 editors are in charge of text manuscripts, the other 2 editors are in charge of illustrations, and Agnes is in charge of summarization; editors work 6 days a week, pay on Saturdays, eight to five , Alice does not advocate working overtime, and it is still very dangerous for girls to walk at night.

Alice works 4 days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and a meeting on Monday morning to arrange the work for this week, and the editors have to hand in a work summary for the week on Saturday afternoon.

The editors first write the text manuscripts, and each person is responsible for several articles. Alice has to read each article, and send back the unqualified ones to rewrite; after the illustrations are finished, Alice first reviews them to see if they meet the requirements, and then Hold a meeting with the editors and arrange the text manuscripts and illustrations page by page according to the page number - there is no art editing and typesetting software, so it can only be done manually.

After the content of the first issue was completed, the salesman accompanied Agnes to the printing factory in the suburbs and handed it over to the manager of the printing factory. The manager immediately arranged for people to make movable type printing plates for the text content, engraving of illustrations, and after the movable type printing plates were arranged, First, try printing to see if there are any typos. The engraving block is much slower than the writing block, and it cannot be engraved wrong.

After all the text and illustrations are printed, two samples are printed first. Agnes checks the samples again at the printing factory. After confirming that they are correct, she sends a copy to Alice for review. After Alice has read it, she signs and agrees to the official printing.

The printing factory officially started. After printing, the top trimmer aligned and cut, bound by hand, and directly transported to the binding workshop where the "London Morning News" was printed next door. The magazines were stuffed into newspapers, packed into boxes, and sent to distribution in various districts of London. point.

In addition to distributing newspapers to the newsstands below, the newspaper distribution points in the urban area of ​​London rely on itinerant hawkers and newsboys for most of the newspapers.

Jane Austen has been worrying about a lot of things lately.

First, in April, Cousin Eliza passed away.

Jane and cousin Eliza have a good relationship, and Henry is the one who has the best relationship with her among several brothers. The two families live not far away and often come and go.

Eliza fell ill at the beginning of the year. At that time, she was not seriously ill. They thought it was a cold, and she should recover within two weeks at most.But she has not been well, low fever continued.It dragged on until April and died on April 4.

Alice was not in London at the time, but in Winchester, Jane wrote to Winchester, and she happened to set off for Gloucestershire at that time, and when Gordon House in Winchester forwarded Jane's letter, The first week of May was over, so Alice missed the funeral.

At the end of May, when Alice got engaged, Jane felt a little better; but soon, word spread that J. Austen was Jane Austen, and she didn't know how to face this situation.

Colleagues in the House of Commons, whether they are Whigs or Tories, said to Tom Lefroy: Yes, Lefroy, your wife turns out to be one of the most famous female writers in our country, you can invite Lefroy Will Mrs. Yi sign me for her latest book Persuasion?

Most of the colleagues are a little bit envious, jealous and hateful, mixed with a bit of contempt: after all, writing is worse than writing poetry, women, just be a good wife and mother, don't worry about others.

But J.Austen is very popular, which is another indisputable fact.

Jane's output is not high, with an average of one publication every two years. From the publication of her first novel "Sense and Sensibility" in 1801 to 1813, she has only published seven books; and Alice has published "England Horror Stories" since 7. , has also published 1805 volumes, a total of 7 volumes.

Jane's edition is reprinted every year. So far, the manuscript fee alone has taken 1 pounds. This figure is quite astonishing, and it also gives her a great say in the family.Tom would not be as good as Jane if he hadn't paid Austin's legal counsel.Jane's income is all her own, and their small family actually only depends on Tom's income and Jane's annuity to maintain their daily life.Tom was not short of money, and told his wife that her income was entirely up to her, and her money would definitely be left to her two daughters in the future, so there was nothing to worry about.

As for the younger brothers of the Lefroy family, they all have good jobs. Even the youngest brother, Henry Lefroy, has now graduated from Oxford University and is studying for a barrister's course at Lincoln's Law School.The two younger sisters also received dowries from their brothers and got married smoothly.

Jane was not very happy that Tom used his own income to subsidize his sisters, but after all, the money Tom used was actually the inheritance he got from Uncle Langlois, and their quality of life did not decline, so let it go.After all, Tom is the eldest son, so it is impossible for him to care about the future of his younger brothers and sisters. He would not say that he is stupid enough to bear all the burdens. Instead, he has arranged good jobs for his younger brothers so that they can be self-reliant.The one he supported the most was his younger brother, Henry Lefroy. Henry Lefroy would take the route of the justice in the future, and he wanted his younger brother to stay in London.

Alice told Brother Henry and Brother-in-law Tom that London would become one of the biggest cities in the world in the future—in fact, it is a big city now—it would not be as profitable to hang out anywhere as in London.She also likes buying houses and land in London and the suburbs of London. It can be said that there are some small pieces of land around the city of London, and there are many houses in the city.Under her influence, they both bought several properties in the London area.

Jane bought houses for both Helena and Diana, and also bought a country house near Basingstoke, Hampshire. In the summer, the House will have a two-month holiday in August and September, and the whole family will go to the country for vacation. I had a great time.

This year, Jane left London with her two daughters a week earlier than in previous years, just to avoid the gossip of the London crowd.

There is still a week before the House of Commons will have a holiday, and Tom is forced to stay in London alone.

That night, near midnight, somebody knocked on the door downstairs, waking Tom up.

The valet opened the door, and then someone rushed upstairs, shouting hurriedly outside the bedroom: "Mr. Lefroy! Miss Alice has been kidnapped!"

Tom was so frightened that he lost even the slightest drowsiness, and hurriedly got out of bed and opened the door.

A servant came up with a candlestick.

Jacob pressed a towel with his right hand and covered his head. The towel was already stained red with blood.He hurriedly said: "Miss Alice took Kate to the theater to watch a play at night. When we came out, we hadn't got in the car yet. Someone beat me and Billy from behind. When we both woke up, Miss and Kate were gone." Billy is another valet.

"Did you call the police?"

"I'm afraid that calling the police will be bad for the lady's reputation—" Jacob hesitated. "Besides, the police in London are useless."

"You!" Tom frowned, "Is reputation as important as her life?" He went back to the bedroom, and while changing clothes, he asked Jacob, "Have you sent someone to tell Henry?"

"Billy went to Mr. Austin's."

"Let's go, let's report to the police first."

London wasn't that messy either, and the law and order around the West End theaters was pretty good, at least the police would know where to find the person in charge.The people in the police station did not recognize him as a congressman, but they knew Sterling, and quickly took Tom to the local snake in the West District.

They did see someone knock out Jacob and Billy and take the two young ladies.They judged from their clothes that one was a lady and the other was a maid.Said that the two girls were struggling, but the other party acted very quickly, and quickly stuffed them into an unmarked four-horse carriage and drove away.Their errands followed for a while, and after the carriage drove out of the theater, it ran faster and faster. The teenage boy couldn't run so fast, and lost track, and came back.

Henry was terribly worried. Many years ago, Thomas Jr. of the Thomas family disappeared like this, neither alive nor dead.

In the early hours of the morning, Henry wrote to his mother very worriedly, saying that Alice had been taken away by someone, and that if Alice was kidnapped, she might be able to come back, and he planned to spend money to redeem her if the other party asked for a ransom.

When the letter was sent, someone sent a letter saying that Mr. Austen would pay £5, and they would send Alice back.Also attached is an amethyst necklace that Alice wore, and her leather shoes.

Most of her jewelry is custom-made by drawing drawings by herself, and the leather shoes are also custom-made and purely handmade. It may not be certain that it is an item on her body alone, but when the two are put together, it is basically certain.

Before noon, Mrs. Austin arrived with Cathy.The family panicked, wondering where to get the 5 pounds.Alice’s money is stored in the bank by herself, and she can’t get it out; Henry has suffered a huge loss recently, and only has 2 pounds left by Eliza in his hand; Tom bought several houses because of Jane, and only has a small amount of 2 to 3000 pounds in cash .

Thinking about this matter, Oliver's family had to be notified, so they secretly sent someone to Wokingham County to tell the Earl of Devroll, and Uncle Evelyn asked Elizabeth to send 1 pounds; Susan Hamilton was not there In London, I went back to Hamilton's house in Scotland to spend the summer, and I can't quench my thirst far away.

In the end, Wesley took out 2 pounds and collected 5 pounds. According to the requirements of the blackmail letter, he placed it somewhere in Hyde Park five days later.

British ocean liner sailing to Upper Canada, the St. Anthony.

In the first-class cabin, one of the guest rooms, almost every day, a young man and a young man in this room would fight.

Alice Austen wanted to scratch George Byron's round smelly face a few times every day.

She had been stunned by ether since she left the theater and was stuffed into a carriage. She inhaled ether several times along the way, and she didn't wake up until the passenger ship departed from the port.

At first, she also thought of kidnapping her for ransom, but once she realized that it was on the ship, she felt that it would not be a simple kidnapping and ransom.When he saw Byron entered the room, he was furious.

"Untie me!" she said in a low voice annoyed.

He took the dagger and cut the ropes around her wrists and ankles.

When she could move her hands and feet, she immediately rushed to beat him.

In terms of physical strength, she is not as good as Byron, and in terms of fighting skills, she is not as good as Byron who has learned boxing.He didn't fight back much, basically dodging.While coaxing her, "Okay, don't be angry. Didn't you say you want to go to America? I'll take you to America."

She scolded angrily, "Are you doing it for me? You're not! It's obvious that rumors of incest between you and Augusta have spread all over London! You want to hide and take me with you?!" Augusta Byron had married a few years earlier, and her husband had also been named Leigh, but had nothing to do with the Leighs, who were relatives of the Austen family.

Byron was very successful in London, and he changed his mistress every few months. In the past few months, people have been rumored that Byron had an affair with his half-sister, Mrs. Augusta Leigh relation.He has indeed been visiting his sister frequently since this year. This fact cannot be concealed. He was also found staying overnight at Augusta's house and did not leave until the next day.

Augusta's marriage was very unfortunate. Her husband, Colonel George Leigh, was a stubborn gambler who often stayed in casinos and brothels for several days in a row.

Byron said with a straight face, "Don't mention her, okay?"

"I want to mention it!" Alice was so angry, "You take me away secretly like this, and you don't care about my reputation? Others will say that I eloped with you!"

"If you want to marry me, we will marry a priest as soon as we get to Quebec."

"You think beautiful!"

He sighed, and grabbed her wrists with both hands, "Stop beating, aren't you tired?"

"Not tired! Let go!"

He let go of her wrist, but she didn't hit him again.She sat down on the bed angrily, "You should suffer. Even if you have 100 mistresses, those men will only find you very attractive. You are a handsome man who everyone loves, a great poet, Literary, but if you have any ulterior intimacy with your own sister, you are finished."

"Not a real sister, but a half-brother."

"Is there any difference?" She said angrily: "And the choir boy before, when people treat you as a homosexual, a depraved man who has incest with his sister, you are finished, and the poet laureate on your head will also die." There is no way to save you, you'd better find someone—no, you'd better get out of here honestly, and don't hurt another innocent girl."

"Now, I only want you." He sat beside her and approached her intimately.

She pushed his head away in disgust, "Don't think about it. The reason why I haven't stabbed you to death is that we are on the boat. If I kill you, I won't be able to escape smoothly."

He sighed again, "You are so cruel! You have to be a good girl, don't always think about killing me."

"Go away."

"Are you hungry? I'll have dinner brought over."

Alice wanted to yell "Don't eat!", but after thinking about it, she must eat, and then beat him up after eating.If you don't eat, it's your own fault!

Byron underestimated Alice's temper.

Because of the speed of the ship, it is still a sailing passenger ship. It will take more than a month to sail in the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to Canada, and will stop in the Azores in the middle to replenish fresh water and food.The first-class passengers are either rich or expensive, and the food is the best, but Alice is very unhappy: she has no money.

She was just going out to watch a stage play, and she didn't plan to buy anything. She only had 10 pounds in change bag, and Kate brought 10 pounds. Byron took both of their change bags away, and didn't give her a penny. Keep.

He also took away the jewelry, skirt and shoes she wore that day, and changed her into a whole set from head to toe.

She was used to the days when she had money in her hands, but suddenly found that she had no money, which suffocated her to death.

Kate followed her on board and was still her personal maid. Byron also assigned her a valet who would never leave her if she left the room.

"I wish I could take Simba with me, and let Simba bite this nasty Bill to death, and then kill George." She said bitterly.This guy Byron is really too shrewd, she really doesn't need to do anything to him when she gets on the boat, since she can't run away anyway.She is going to the theater, so she can't bring pets. Angora cats and African lions stay at home.

She thought, if she suddenly disappeared, her mother and brothers and sisters must be dying of panic.They would have thought she had eloped off to Scotland with Byron to marry, and if Byron had been wise enough to pretend they had gone to Scotland, the Austenes would have gone to Scotland to find her, without thinking that they had left England for Canada.

This damned smelly man!

The author has something to say: *The Duke of Wellington has many noble children in the army on the Iberian Peninsula, the illegitimate son of the Duke, foreign princes, sons of earls and barons, a lot.But at that time the senior officers were of noble origin.

*London newsboys, you can roughly refer to "Newsies" starring Christian Bale. The story is about 1899, the street newsboys in New York at the end of the 19th century, and it should be similar in London at the beginning of the 19th century.