In the steps of Jane Austen
The new book Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach, a book of essays about trips taken by the author over the period of a year, includes a chapter related to Jane Austen.
Seven more chapters ensue, whisking us off to Kyoto to learn about traditional Japanese culture; to Florence to take a course called “Art in Florence”; to Winchester to walk in the footsteps of Jane Austen; to Havana to meet Cuban artists and average Cubanos; to Avignon to study and admire French landscape architecture; to Prague to engage in a creative-writing seminar; and to a Scottish sheep farm near Loch Lomond to learn the rudiments of training Border collies to herd sheep.
