Kate Scarth

And one thing that like you get so much historical detail, but Ann Foster's really also like uses a lot of early 21st century language.

So, and she actually draws parallels to the present moment and like influencers and you just, you kind of, so you've really got the sense of like the connections between the early 19th century and the early 21st century.

So, and it's also just, so it's just very fun as well.

the Prince Regent was very criticized for how he treated his wife and people would, you know, boo him in the street and stuff like that.

And, and Jane Austen said that she would be on Princess Caroline's side because she's a woman, Princess Caroline's a woman and I hate her husband.

Um,

But he was a huge fan of Jane Austen's work.

He kept copies of her books in all of his houses and kind of through his library and kind of bullied her into dedicating Emma to him.

And so I know some scholars read kind of Frank Churchill as potentially like a version of the Prince Regent, you know, doesn't doesn't go kind of on criticized in that book.

Sounds good.

What else have you been reading?

So my friend Sarah Emsley wrote a book called The Austens, which is about Jane Austen and her sister, Fanny Palmer Austen, who was born in Bermuda and spent time in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I am today.

And so it's really interesting because it shows those kind of international links that Jane Austen had.

had her links with Canada you know across the Atlantic world in in this case through her two naval brothers and then her sister-in-law and just gives you a sense of what like you know Mrs. Croft's life would have been like aboard a naval ship and we can see yeah so Fanny's letters back to Jane Austen would have influenced Austen in particular when she was writing Persuasion and Kate you were just telling me that you were really enjoying classics on audio lately

I guess.

And I was inspired by episode 510 of What Should I Read Next?

And for that, I've had a few false starts with Tom Jones.

I was really enjoying it, but it's a huge book and I never got that deep into it, but I am loving it on audio.

Henry Fielding's very funny.

He breaks the fourth wall.