Catherine Anne Hubback (1818 -1877) Jonathan Rowe looks at Catherine Anne Hubback for the Brislington Conservation & Historical Society
A New Portrait of Jane Austen? Just how do you begin a new Jane Austen portrait so many years after her death? What did Jane Austen really look like?
Forensic artist Melissa Dring takes up a commission by David Baldock to use contemporary eye-witness accounts of Jane's features and character to produce a portrait for the Jane Austen Centre.
Warren Hastings: First Governor of India Lady Robert is delighted with P. and P., and really was so, as I understand, before she knew who wrote it, for, of course, she knows now. He told her with as much satisfaction as if it were my wish. He did not tell me this, but he told Fanny. And Mr. ...
Who Was Jane Austen? Jane Austen (1775-1817), English novelist, was born on the 16th of December 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of which her father, the Rev. George Austen, was rector. She was the seventh of eight children. Her mother was Cassandr...
James Brydges: Cassanda Austen's Princely Uncle James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, MP, PC (6 January 1673 – 9 August 1744) was the first of fourteen children by Sir James Brydges, 3rd Baronet of Wilton Castle, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 8th Baron Chandos; and Elizabeth Barnard. Three days after his ...
Eliza de Feuillide: Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin' Eliza Hancock was born 22nd December 1761 in Calcutta, India, to her mother Philadelphia Austen and her father Tysoe Saul Hancock, a physician with the East India Company. Philadelphia was George Austen’s sister, making Eliza Jane’s first cousin.
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Madame LaTournelle and the Abbey School Mrs. Goddard was the mistress of a School -- not of a seminary, or an establishment, or any thing which professed, in long sentences of refined nonsense, to combine liberal acquirements with elegant morality, upon new principles and new systems -- and...
A Closer Look at Catherine Knight I am very much obliged to Mrs. Knight for such a proof of the interest she takes in me, and she may depend upon it that I will marry Mr. Papillon, whatever may be his reluctance or my own. I owe her much more than such a trifling sacrifice.
Jane ...
Fanny Austen Knight (Knatchbull) You are inimitable, irresistible. You are the delight of my life. Such letters, such entertaining letters, as you have lately sent! such a description of your queer little heart! such a lovely display of what imagination does. You are worth your w...
Charles Austen: Jane Austen's "own particular little brother"
"Our own particular little brother"
Jane Austen to Cassandra
January 21, 1799
Charles Austen CB (1779 – 7 October 1852) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and beyond, eventually rising to ...
Madam Anne Lefroy Anne Lefroy, known as Madam Lefroy, was born in 1749 to the Brydges family at Wootton Court, near Canterbury.
When George Austen was made rector at Deane by his Uncle Francis, Francis also sold his assets in Ashe to a wealthy man, Benjamin Langlois, so...
The Life and Crimes of Jane Leigh-Perrot "Bath is a charming place, sir; there are so many good shops here. We are sadly off in the country. . . . Now, here one can step out of doors, and get a thing in five minutes."
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen's first entrance into Bath was facilitated b...
Reverend Brook Edward Bridges and the Bridges of Goodnestone Park We were agreeably surprised by Edward Bridges' company... He had been, strange to tell, too late for the cricket match, too late at least to play himself, and, not being asked to dine with the players, came home. It is impossible to do justice ...
Anna Austen Lefroy: A believer in True Love Jane Anna Elizabeth Lefroy was born in 1793, the first daughter of James Austen and Anne Mathew. After Anna’s mother passed away in 1795, James married Mary Lloyd (1797) and fathered James Edward Austen-Leigh (JEAL) and Caroline Austen. JEAL later wro...
Who was the Real Tom Lefroy "Tell Mary that I make over Mr. Heartley and all his estate to her for her sole use and benefit in future, and not only him, but all my other admirers into the bargain wherever she can find them, even the kiss which C. Powlett wanted to give me, as I ...
Jane Austen's Brothers Jane Austen's brothers
"A Family of children will always be called a fine family, where there are head and arms and legs enough for the number. "
-Jane Austen
Jane Austen had six brothers-- each with different talents, each contributing to her ...
The Reverend George and Mrs. Austen: A closer look at Jane Austen's Parents Jane Austen (1775-1817) was the seventh of eight children born to respectable, middle class Parents. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh Austen (1739-1827) had family connections to a Duke as well as Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey. Her father, the Reverend Geor...
Cassandra Austen: Jane Austen's Beloved Older Sister If Cassandra were going to have her head cut off, Jane would insist on sharing her fate.”
Mrs. Austen
Cassandra Elizabeth Austen was born January 9, 1773, two years before her famed sister Jane. In a family of 6 boys, the girls became fast and close f...
James Henry "Leigh Hunt" Liberal author and Poet James Henry Leigh Hunt (19 October 1784 – 28 August 1859) was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer. He was born at Southgate, London, Middlesex, where his parents had settled after leaving the newly formed United States of America. His father...
- George Austen
Jane Austen's "Missing" Brother
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