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Jun 20, 2010 · Gentle Reader: This Father’s Day weekend, I salute Jane Austen’s father, George Austen. This post, which I wrote three years ago, has been resurrected and updated for this occasion. Rev. George Austen was by all accounts a handsome man.
Jane Austen 's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [2] [3] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough, with connections to the ...
Austen’s father was a clergyman in Steventon, and Jane lived more than half her life there. While there, a teenaged Jane began drafting three of her novels. Unfortunately, the rectory was...
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Jane’s father George Austen studied at St John’s College Oxford and was ordained in 1755. Tall, slim and good-looking with chestnut brown hair and bright hazel eyes, he was known as ‘the handsome Proctor’ during his time at Oxford.
Jane Austen’s Parents and Siblings Her father, George Austen, worked as the rector, or member of the clergy who is in charge of the parish, of the Anglican parishes in both Steventon and Dean. Steventon was made up of, scholars estimate, around thirty families at the time.
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Jun 15, 2008 · June 15, 2008 by Vic. Father’s Day is a perfect time to describe George Austen (1731-1805 ) through his daughter’s biographers. By all accounts he married for love, adored his family, and was so handsome even in old age that he turned strangers’ heads as he walked the streets of Bath. ( Click here to read my 2007 post about him.)
2 days ago · Jane Austen was born in the Hampshire village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, was rector. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight—six boys and two girls.