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  1. George Austen (1731 – 21 January 1805) was a cleric of the Church of England, rector of Deane and Steventon in Hampshire. He is known as the father of Jane Austen.

  2. 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.

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  4. Austen, Jane. Austen, Jane ( 1775–1817 ), novelist, was born on 16 December 1775 at the rectory in Steventon, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, the seventh child and younger daughter of George Austen (1731–1805), rector of Deane and Steventon and private tutor, and his wife, Cassandra (1739–1827), youngest daughter of the Revd Thomas Leigh ...

  5. 1. Biography. jan fergus. Biographical information on Austen is famously scarce. Most peo-ple who read the novels know that she was a clergyman’s daughter who grew up in a country parsonage with several brothers and one beloved sister, that she never married and that she died relatively young. They may know that she was born in 1775 (16 ...

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  8. Born in 1775 to George and Cassandra Austen in the English village of Steventon, Jane Austen grew up in a highly literate family. Austen’s father was an Oxford-educated clergyman, and her mother was a humorous, aristocratic woman. Of Jane’s six brothers, two were also educated at Oxford and two became admirals in the Royal Navy.

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