Jane Austen lived nearly two years in two villages in Hampshire: for 25 years in her hometown of Stevenson, and then in the last eight years of her life in Shaughton, during which she wrote and published her great novels. While there are many books that describe her urban life periods in Bath, Southampton and London, summer vacations in Lyme Regis and other coastal resorts in West Country, she gave no consideration to this rural background of her life.

Not only was her father the president of the University of Stevenson, he was also a farmer, managing property on an area of ​​200 acres. In addition, her brother Edward was a great king of the land, where he owned the three Goodrich properties in Kent, Steventon and Shaughton in Hampshire.

Agriculture in all its aspects was more important to a gene than to the clergy or marine jobs of its younger brethren. This book fills a gap in the background of the Austin family, discusses the state of agriculture in general in the south of England during the war conditions that lasted most of Jane Austen's life, especially considering the villages and their inhabitants, weather conditions, field crops, agriculture and domestic animals, the family economy in Austin and style Rural life.

They all appear in Austin's letters, and also appear indistinctly in her novels, thus lending the air of her verisimilitude. Apart from these obvious sources, there are other manuscripts of the Austin family, not yet published, that provide special and unique information.

Jane Austen and Country Life are rich in contemporary images of popular lands, landscapes and animals, evoking a world that has disappeared more than the famous Regency city of Bath or London, but no less important than understanding the life of the writer and the work.