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Cassandra Elizabeth Austen (9 January 1773 – 22 March 1845 [1]) was an amateur English watercolourist and the elder sister of Jane Austen. The letters between her and Jane form a substantial foundation to scholarly understanding of the life of the novelist.
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Jane Austen 's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican...
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Silhouette of Cassandra Austen, Jane's sister and closest...
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Cassandra Elizabeth Austen (9 January 1773 – 22 March 1845) was the older sister of Jane Austen. She was Jane's best friend and a beauty. Her fiancé died; she never married. Childhood. Austen was born in 1773 in Steventon, Hampshire.
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May 1, 2020. While her younger sister is still known and loved the world over for her writing, Cassandra Austen—the first-born daughter, and therefore the Miss Austen to their contemporaries—is known, if at all, for one thing. In the last years of her life, she sifted through all the many hundreds of letters she had received from her ...
Cassandra died in 1845, at the age of 72, and was buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas’, Chawton, beside her mother. Before her death Cassandra destroyed many of Jane’s surviving letters, an act which was much criticised by later generations of critics.
Mar 24, 2018 · Her body was taken back to Chawton and she was buried next to her mother at St Nicholas Church within the grounds of Chawton House. Immortalised in fiction and on screen, Cassandra Austen will forever be famous as the sister of one of the greatest writers Britain has ever seen.
