My first time visiting the Jane Austen festival ✨🪶 My handmade Regency dress & book haul

I really enjoyed Black England especially because obviously it gives an insight into a history that is just completely forgotten about and has been purposely written out of so many histories as well. It takes an era of history that I think we all think we know and kind of turn some of it upside down and also just presents the reality as well as well as kind of highlighting really important figures like Sancho who is someone that I remember studying and found absolutely fascinating especially in his correspondence with Lawrence Stern.

And this was recommended, I think, after I read David Oisa's book on Black and British, which is one of my favorite history books ever.

I actually really like Mansville Park but I do think it's a novel that I enjoy studying more than I enjoy reading. I enjoy annotating this even for pleasure way more than I think I sit down and read it as a novel.

But it really felt a choice between North Angley aka the more positive bath novel and Persuasion, the most depressing bath novel, but also the most beautiful.

But it really felt a choice between North Angley aka the more positive bath novel and Persuasion, the most depressing bath novel, but also the most beautiful.

I always suggest picking up Pride and Prejudice because I think it's one of her funnest. I think it's just one of the best books ever written. But I also think it's really kind of easily it's accessible as well.

I thought it was like the perfect Bath purchase for me because the last time I was in Bath, I bought the history of England by a partial prejudice and ignorant historian, one of my favorite pieces of Jane Austin's Juvenilia.