Land Is All That Matters AC25 and The Real Jane Austen:

and The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

In their own ways these four very different writers pushed back against the misogyny of the period

still obsessed by his ‘preciouss’

Then try to fix it

Before George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

Land Is All That Matters AC25 and The Real Jane Austen:In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north east of the country. Land was vital. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords. The dream of having more control over their farms, even of