Jane Austen : Her Homes and Her Friends

"IT has been remarked that "in works of genius there is always something intangible - something that can be felt but that cannot be clearly defined - something that eludes us when we attempt to put it into words." This "intangible something" - this undefinable charm - is felt by all Jane Austen's admirers. It has exercised a sway of ever-increasing power over the writer and illustrator of these pages; constraining them to follow the author to all the places where she dwelt and inspiring them with a determination to find out all that could be known of her life and its surroundings."