GOULSTONE, (John) and PACKHAM, (Roger).

RATHER MAD ABOUT CRICKET. JANE AUSTEN AND HER CRICKET CONNECTIONS.
Published in Ewell, by J.W. McKenzie, 2023.
8vo. 150pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers. Good condition.
SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the title-page. A study of the famous author Jane Austen and her connections to the game of cricket. ............................................................ The Cricket Statistician no. 206, May 2024: ...This book explores...her relations, especially George and Edward Knight and principally the seven Austen Leigh great nephews. The reader will enjoy the short biographies of all the relatives and the text brings them alive. Bringing together who arguably are the two most foremost cricket historians is a triumph in itself... ............................................................. The Jane Austin Society News Letter no. 62, Spring 2024: ...There is an impressive amount of (mainly biographical) research in this book...It works roughly chronologically through the generations...so much of the early development of cricket came from Hampshire and Kent that the particular role of the Austen family network is of real interest for lovers of cricket as well as Austen-aficionados. The authors deserve credit for bringing this to our attention. .............................................................
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