In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf informs us that ‘towards the end of the eighteenth century, a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses. The middle class woman began to write’.[1]… Read More The importance of Home in Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) and Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1816).