18078 Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine Historian Joan Druett tells what

Historian Joan Druett tells what life was like for these warriors who had "the bodies of women and the souls of men

The author dedicates an entire chapter to the history of card-playing in England during Austen's lifetime

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and no idea where she's going

18078 Jane Austen's Regency World Magazine Historian Joan Druett tells whatLydia Bennet was not the only woman to insist on camp life. "(W)ives and mistresses, duchesses and washerwomen, nurses and prostitues: women of all social ranks have followed the drum of the British Army on foot, on horseback, in baggage train, by troopship or aeroplane" and this book follows them as they march, make war, are detained or imprisoned, and live on modern bases in other countries. This is the first comprehensive history that focuses on