little miss austin
Chapter 13 Daylesford
Lydia took out all the clothes from the suitcase and hung them in the closet in an orderly manner.I picked out a home skirt I bought in London and put it on the bed.Another pair of leather shoes was picked out and placed beside the bed.Alice changed her skirt and shoes, and went downstairs to eat.
Anna kept Henry for dinner and stayed overnight.
She has a cold personality, even if she has no enthusiasm for her relatives, Henry is not surprised. After dinner, he followed Alice to see her room. He was very satisfied with the location of the room. It won't be too cold here.
There is a chest of drawers by the door, and a candlestick is placed on the top of the chest. There is a bedside table next to the bed, and there is also a candlestick. The room is very bright.
Henry told her to go to bed early, explaining that they would have breakfast together, and he would have to go back to the barracks after breakfast.If she has something to do, she will send a servant to deliver a letter to him. He is an officer, and he has a lot of freedom. He can come out after asking the officer for leave.Usually, his schedule is on Sundays, and he will visit her and take her out to play during the holidays.
Living at Anna's was more agreeable than at cousin Thomas'.
There are not many servants in the family, the housekeeper Su Li, Anna's maid Luisa, Alice's trainee maid Lydia, two housemaids, the cook and two kitchen maids, a groom and coachman, two male servants , a 13, 4-year-old errand boy.Alice originally thought that there was no butler, but later she found out that there was no butler who served in the house, but there was a butler who was in charge of accounts, and was responsible for handling Anna's fields, real estate and other affairs.Anna has an annuity of £1500 a year, most of which comes from the income from the fields;
The real estate includes two rental properties in London and one self-occupied property; two properties in Oxfordshire, including the country house where she lives now, and some other rental properties. The rental income is about 300 pounds a year.
Anna doesn't pay much attention to her clothes, and she still abides by the widow's set of rules. She only wears black, and she is dressed in black from head to toe, which makes her look lifeless.But he is very particular about food, eat less and eat well.He was very generous to his little cousin and allowed her to order the cook to buy whatever ingredients she wanted.
Alice is just a 6-year-old child, and she doesn't eat much, so she doesn't spend much money.Of course, it is mainly because it is still winter and there are not many foods to choose from on the market.
Su Li found some children for her the next day and asked her to choose playmates, all of whom were children of nearby farmers, and they came here after changing into clean clothes.Alice picked a 10-year-old boy, Jacob, and asked him if he knew how to read. Jacob said he knew a little bit, and he just started to learn to recognize words.Alice asked him to come and play with her every afternoon. The so-called "playing" meant walking around the village. When the weather was good, he would go farther. If it was cold, he would stay at home.
Lydia found her good writing paper, a little thinner than letter paper, but good paper nonetheless.Alice sketched out a plan on paper.
For example, if you want to get rich by writing books, what subject matter should you choose?Gothic adventure novels have been popular for many years, but they are still very popular. There is a large readership base. Whether the writing is good or not is not a big problem. After all, there is a market. The average income of a book is 100 pounds. If it is popular, the income can be doubled. Not uncommon.
Then there is the drama flow of Shakespeare. Shakespeare was quite rich and famous through publishing during his lifetime, but after him, there is no particularly famous playwright.But it should be possible to convert the script into a novel.
what else?Biography?This is more labor-intensive and requires a lot of data support, so it is temporarily behind.
Or historical romances, half-fictional and half-true history, this should make people more eager to read, literary processing, not surprising.
Then there is the reading preference of female readers.In the past 20 years, epistolary novels by female authors have become very popular. This is also related to the increase in the literacy rate of women above the country gentry class after the popularization of printing. Bigger, more readers, and more and more attention is paid to the preferences of female readers.
This also means that novels with various love elements are bound to be popular.
When Jane was a teenager, she wrote some short stories and some scripts for internal performances in the family. At that time, there were many brothers and sisters in the family, and the brothers and sisters could rehearse a play by themselves.I started writing a novel last year, and now I have completed "Elinor and Marianne". Alice has read the manuscript, which will be "Sense and Sensibility" in the future, but it is still in the epistolary form. I don't know when it will be revised into Third-person fiction.
Creating a novel is not an easy task. You have to read enough and have an understanding of current popular topics. Writing is a difficult thing, because writing is lonely and you cannot share your feelings with others. There is no stereotyped experience to learn from. The same theme, the same characters, and even the same plot, each author will write a different story.
Moreover, everything is difficult in the beginning.
Moreover, a 12-year-old child who writes a novel and publishes it is a genius child prodigy, and a 6-year-old child who writes a novel and publishes it is a bit weird.She might as well use these few years to enrich herself.But before that, you can try to operate and publish Jane's novel in advance.
She wrote weekly to the Steventons, telling all the little things about her life at Anna's, and Henry, Tom, and Wesley.Henry came over on Sunday during the holidays, took her to play nearby during the day, and sent her back to Anna's house at night before going out by himself.
Tom came here twice during the Sunday holiday to hang out with his friends.Speaking of Cousin Anna is very rich, but she is too close to strangers, and asked Alice if it would be too depressing to live with Anna.
Alice said no, she played by herself, and Anna basically didn't care about her.
Wesley also came once, to visit Oxford University. He confirmed that he would come to school in the fall and looked at the dormitory.He took Alice to see the dormitory together. Alice asked the dormitory supervisor many questions, and finally helped him choose a dormitory.There are still students living in the dormitory, and the room can be vacated after graduation in May.
The dormitories are in good condition. They are two-story brick-wood-concrete buildings. There is one person upstairs and one person downstairs. The layout of the rooms is similar. They are all bedrooms, living rooms, and bathrooms. The upstairs area is smaller, but it is clean. The area is slightly larger, but you have to share the entrance door and the stairs to the upstairs with the students upstairs, and the downstairs reception room is shared by two people.
Alice asked him to live upstairs, so he made an agreement with the housekeeper.Alice also asked him to give the dormitory manager 1 pound, saying that if someone came to see the dormitory again, they would say that they had already booked it; usually they were noble children, and they would not compete with others for the dormitory. Do not apply in college, but it is better to explain in advance. It's only a £1 tip, and Wesley can afford it. It's still very important to have a good relationship with the housekeeper.
The scenery in Oxford University is still very good, the greening is very good, the teaching buildings are scattered among the green trees, there is a small river on the campus, and boats can be sailed on the river, and there are not many students watching.Thinking about it, college education has not yet been popularized in this era, at least the country gentry and above can send their children to college.Wesley was a little older when he came to college at the age of 20, but it was not unique. Besides, if he didn't tell people his age, the difference between 2 and 3 years old would not be obvious.
She also talked about the playmate Jacob she chose for herself. His father was a carpenter in the village and his mother was a housewife. He used to be a maid and knew Su Li.Jacob, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is thick and strong, and is very obedient. He told him to go east or west, and taught her to climb trees and dig out bird nests.
She thought the skirt was too cumbersome, and wanted Su Li to prepare a set of boy's clothes for her. Su Li first scolded her, saying that it was not good for a young lady like her to wear boy's clothes, because that would not be enough for a lady.But after a few days, I still prepared two sets of boy's clothes for her, and called Jacob to tell her not to take her to play with too dangerous things, and she was not allowed to climb trees.
But Alice doesn't care about any restrictions.
After staying at Anna's house for a month, in the second week of March, Henry took two days off, including the Sunday holiday, and sent Alice to Daylesford in Gloucestershire.
The first Governor of India, Warren Hastings, was 63 years old. He was a staff member of the East India Company with Eliza’s cousin’s father, Tesso Hancock, and became her godfather after Eliza was born. Has ties to the Hancocks and is also close to the Austins.In the seven years since he was sued, the Austin family has been paying attention to the trial of the case.
Daylesford House is very large, with a construction area far exceeding that of Goethe Musham Manor, with hundreds of acres of forests and lawns on the outside. The garden was redesigned by a famous garden designer and built beautifully.
——And there are really peacocks!
Alice looked out the car window excitedly and curiously.
The carriage was parked in the drive of the Daylesford House, and the turbaned Indian footman came down to open the doors for them and set down the little folding ladder.Henry got out of the car first, then turned around and helped Alice get out of the car.
Hastings Foyd rushed out of the gate: "Alice! Here you are at last!"
Henry grabbed him in time, "Hey! Don't bump into her." He gave him a warning look.
Hastings smiled a little embarrassedly, stood firm, and saluted Alice in a dignified manner, "Hello, Alice."
Alice saluted him too. "Hello, Hastings."
Hastings stared at Jacob who just got out of the carriage, "Who is he?"
"This is Jacob, the playmate my cousin Anna found for me. He is 10 years old this year."
Jacob, dressed in a country boy's linen jacket and trousers, saluted Hastings primly, "MyLord."
Hastings held his head up and snorted.
The author has something to say:
*Warren Hastings is a real person in history and a friend of the Austen family. Jane Austen is free to use the Hastings family library when visiting relatives and friends.
*Hastings' political opponents claimed that Eliza Hancock was his daughter born of an affair with Freda Fia, but the truth is not known.Hastings was very generous to Eliza. When Eliza was 10 years old, Hastings gave her £5000 in cash.After the death of Eliza's father, Hastings has also continued to provide financial support to the mother and daughter.
Anna kept Henry for dinner and stayed overnight.
She has a cold personality, even if she has no enthusiasm for her relatives, Henry is not surprised. After dinner, he followed Alice to see her room. He was very satisfied with the location of the room. It won't be too cold here.
There is a chest of drawers by the door, and a candlestick is placed on the top of the chest. There is a bedside table next to the bed, and there is also a candlestick. The room is very bright.
Henry told her to go to bed early, explaining that they would have breakfast together, and he would have to go back to the barracks after breakfast.If she has something to do, she will send a servant to deliver a letter to him. He is an officer, and he has a lot of freedom. He can come out after asking the officer for leave.Usually, his schedule is on Sundays, and he will visit her and take her out to play during the holidays.
Living at Anna's was more agreeable than at cousin Thomas'.
There are not many servants in the family, the housekeeper Su Li, Anna's maid Luisa, Alice's trainee maid Lydia, two housemaids, the cook and two kitchen maids, a groom and coachman, two male servants , a 13, 4-year-old errand boy.Alice originally thought that there was no butler, but later she found out that there was no butler who served in the house, but there was a butler who was in charge of accounts, and was responsible for handling Anna's fields, real estate and other affairs.Anna has an annuity of £1500 a year, most of which comes from the income from the fields;
The real estate includes two rental properties in London and one self-occupied property; two properties in Oxfordshire, including the country house where she lives now, and some other rental properties. The rental income is about 300 pounds a year.
Anna doesn't pay much attention to her clothes, and she still abides by the widow's set of rules. She only wears black, and she is dressed in black from head to toe, which makes her look lifeless.But he is very particular about food, eat less and eat well.He was very generous to his little cousin and allowed her to order the cook to buy whatever ingredients she wanted.
Alice is just a 6-year-old child, and she doesn't eat much, so she doesn't spend much money.Of course, it is mainly because it is still winter and there are not many foods to choose from on the market.
Su Li found some children for her the next day and asked her to choose playmates, all of whom were children of nearby farmers, and they came here after changing into clean clothes.Alice picked a 10-year-old boy, Jacob, and asked him if he knew how to read. Jacob said he knew a little bit, and he just started to learn to recognize words.Alice asked him to come and play with her every afternoon. The so-called "playing" meant walking around the village. When the weather was good, he would go farther. If it was cold, he would stay at home.
Lydia found her good writing paper, a little thinner than letter paper, but good paper nonetheless.Alice sketched out a plan on paper.
For example, if you want to get rich by writing books, what subject matter should you choose?Gothic adventure novels have been popular for many years, but they are still very popular. There is a large readership base. Whether the writing is good or not is not a big problem. After all, there is a market. The average income of a book is 100 pounds. If it is popular, the income can be doubled. Not uncommon.
Then there is the drama flow of Shakespeare. Shakespeare was quite rich and famous through publishing during his lifetime, but after him, there is no particularly famous playwright.But it should be possible to convert the script into a novel.
what else?Biography?This is more labor-intensive and requires a lot of data support, so it is temporarily behind.
Or historical romances, half-fictional and half-true history, this should make people more eager to read, literary processing, not surprising.
Then there is the reading preference of female readers.In the past 20 years, epistolary novels by female authors have become very popular. This is also related to the increase in the literacy rate of women above the country gentry class after the popularization of printing. Bigger, more readers, and more and more attention is paid to the preferences of female readers.
This also means that novels with various love elements are bound to be popular.
When Jane was a teenager, she wrote some short stories and some scripts for internal performances in the family. At that time, there were many brothers and sisters in the family, and the brothers and sisters could rehearse a play by themselves.I started writing a novel last year, and now I have completed "Elinor and Marianne". Alice has read the manuscript, which will be "Sense and Sensibility" in the future, but it is still in the epistolary form. I don't know when it will be revised into Third-person fiction.
Creating a novel is not an easy task. You have to read enough and have an understanding of current popular topics. Writing is a difficult thing, because writing is lonely and you cannot share your feelings with others. There is no stereotyped experience to learn from. The same theme, the same characters, and even the same plot, each author will write a different story.
Moreover, everything is difficult in the beginning.
Moreover, a 12-year-old child who writes a novel and publishes it is a genius child prodigy, and a 6-year-old child who writes a novel and publishes it is a bit weird.She might as well use these few years to enrich herself.But before that, you can try to operate and publish Jane's novel in advance.
She wrote weekly to the Steventons, telling all the little things about her life at Anna's, and Henry, Tom, and Wesley.Henry came over on Sunday during the holidays, took her to play nearby during the day, and sent her back to Anna's house at night before going out by himself.
Tom came here twice during the Sunday holiday to hang out with his friends.Speaking of Cousin Anna is very rich, but she is too close to strangers, and asked Alice if it would be too depressing to live with Anna.
Alice said no, she played by herself, and Anna basically didn't care about her.
Wesley also came once, to visit Oxford University. He confirmed that he would come to school in the fall and looked at the dormitory.He took Alice to see the dormitory together. Alice asked the dormitory supervisor many questions, and finally helped him choose a dormitory.There are still students living in the dormitory, and the room can be vacated after graduation in May.
The dormitories are in good condition. They are two-story brick-wood-concrete buildings. There is one person upstairs and one person downstairs. The layout of the rooms is similar. They are all bedrooms, living rooms, and bathrooms. The upstairs area is smaller, but it is clean. The area is slightly larger, but you have to share the entrance door and the stairs to the upstairs with the students upstairs, and the downstairs reception room is shared by two people.
Alice asked him to live upstairs, so he made an agreement with the housekeeper.Alice also asked him to give the dormitory manager 1 pound, saying that if someone came to see the dormitory again, they would say that they had already booked it; usually they were noble children, and they would not compete with others for the dormitory. Do not apply in college, but it is better to explain in advance. It's only a £1 tip, and Wesley can afford it. It's still very important to have a good relationship with the housekeeper.
The scenery in Oxford University is still very good, the greening is very good, the teaching buildings are scattered among the green trees, there is a small river on the campus, and boats can be sailed on the river, and there are not many students watching.Thinking about it, college education has not yet been popularized in this era, at least the country gentry and above can send their children to college.Wesley was a little older when he came to college at the age of 20, but it was not unique. Besides, if he didn't tell people his age, the difference between 2 and 3 years old would not be obvious.
She also talked about the playmate Jacob she chose for herself. His father was a carpenter in the village and his mother was a housewife. He used to be a maid and knew Su Li.Jacob, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is thick and strong, and is very obedient. He told him to go east or west, and taught her to climb trees and dig out bird nests.
She thought the skirt was too cumbersome, and wanted Su Li to prepare a set of boy's clothes for her. Su Li first scolded her, saying that it was not good for a young lady like her to wear boy's clothes, because that would not be enough for a lady.But after a few days, I still prepared two sets of boy's clothes for her, and called Jacob to tell her not to take her to play with too dangerous things, and she was not allowed to climb trees.
But Alice doesn't care about any restrictions.
After staying at Anna's house for a month, in the second week of March, Henry took two days off, including the Sunday holiday, and sent Alice to Daylesford in Gloucestershire.
The first Governor of India, Warren Hastings, was 63 years old. He was a staff member of the East India Company with Eliza’s cousin’s father, Tesso Hancock, and became her godfather after Eliza was born. Has ties to the Hancocks and is also close to the Austins.In the seven years since he was sued, the Austin family has been paying attention to the trial of the case.
Daylesford House is very large, with a construction area far exceeding that of Goethe Musham Manor, with hundreds of acres of forests and lawns on the outside. The garden was redesigned by a famous garden designer and built beautifully.
——And there are really peacocks!
Alice looked out the car window excitedly and curiously.
The carriage was parked in the drive of the Daylesford House, and the turbaned Indian footman came down to open the doors for them and set down the little folding ladder.Henry got out of the car first, then turned around and helped Alice get out of the car.
Hastings Foyd rushed out of the gate: "Alice! Here you are at last!"
Henry grabbed him in time, "Hey! Don't bump into her." He gave him a warning look.
Hastings smiled a little embarrassedly, stood firm, and saluted Alice in a dignified manner, "Hello, Alice."
Alice saluted him too. "Hello, Hastings."
Hastings stared at Jacob who just got out of the carriage, "Who is he?"
"This is Jacob, the playmate my cousin Anna found for me. He is 10 years old this year."
Jacob, dressed in a country boy's linen jacket and trousers, saluted Hastings primly, "MyLord."
Hastings held his head up and snorted.
The author has something to say:
*Warren Hastings is a real person in history and a friend of the Austen family. Jane Austen is free to use the Hastings family library when visiting relatives and friends.
*Hastings' political opponents claimed that Eliza Hancock was his daughter born of an affair with Freda Fia, but the truth is not known.Hastings was very generous to Eliza. When Eliza was 10 years old, Hastings gave her £5000 in cash.After the death of Eliza's father, Hastings has also continued to provide financial support to the mother and daughter.
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