To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth in 2025, this addition to FL’s ‘Worlds of’ series, picking up on the themes and legacy behind one of the worlds most popular writers. Despite the tranquil, even cosy, image of Austen and her work that still lingers in the popular imagination, her life in fact coincided with a period of intense, immense change, what is still sometimes called the Age of Revolutions. The American Revolutionary War began the year of her birth. By her eighth birthday, Britain had been forced to formally recognise the existence of the United...