The Gentlemanly Professions
What options did the younger sons of the gentry have when choosing a profession.
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Continue reading →In Jane Austen’s writing we encounter a number of characters like Edward Ferrars and Edmund Bertram who are planning on taking orders. Her readers understood what that meant, but the concept is a little foreign to us, so here’s a … Continue reading →