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Dec 16, 2010 · Steventon Rectory, the Austen family home, lay seven miles away from the nearest village of Basingstoke, and so on the eventful night that baby Jane was born, the Austen family did not bother to summon a physician. An 18th century pregnant woman’s corset could be loosened from both front and back.
May 10, 2021 · Being a Jane Austen sibling meant being one of eight children in a family whose father was George Austen and whose mother was Cassandra Leigh. George was an Anglican rector who descended from wool manufacturers and rose to the lower ranks of the landed gentry and Cassandra was a member of the aristocratic Leigh family that originated in 1643 when Sir Thomas Leigh was created Baron Leigh, of ...
Jun 14, 2021 · Looser also found that Austen’s father, the Rev. George Austen, who has been described as the principal trustee of an Antiguan sugar plantation owned by James Lanford Nibbs, was actually a co-trustee of a marriage settlement that would have been responsible for dispersing the plantation property and profits.
Sep 2, 2021 · Jane Austen’s Letters, Godmersham Park, 17 November 1798. Queen Charlotte, King George IIIs consort, gave birth to 15 children in 21 years. These are their 6 eldest. Indeed, life for women in Jane Austen’s Regency England, even as part of the upper classes, was uncomfortable, difficult, and dangerous.
George Austen was the second eldest son to George and Cassandra Austen. Little was known about George at first as he was omitted from James Edward Austen-Leigh’s (Jane's nephew) memoir of Jane. This is not to say that it was an attempt to cover up his existence as the memoir was written 50 years after Jane's death and 30 years after George's.
PARENTS: Reverend Mr. George Austen, Father. Cassandra (Leigh) Austen, Mother. SIBLINGS: James (1765-1819) - Became the vicar of Sherborne St. John. George (1766-1838) - Thought to be epileptic, deaf and mute; sent away to live with care-taking family; very little actually known of George. Edward (1767-1852) - Inherited wealth from uncle and ...
Sep 18, 2022 · George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, Austen's parents, married on April 26, 1764, at St.Swithin's Church in Bath. “Jane Austen.”
