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Nov 1, 2013 · It reveals the author to be not a retiring spinster, but Jane Austen’s cousin and sister-in-law, Eliza de Feuillide, a married lady of the highest intellect whose ten-year course of education was supervised by her famous father, a man at the very centre of the intellectual life of London.
ELIZA DE FEUILLIDE’S GRAVE . Gravestone of Eliza de Feuillide (Elizabeth Austen), her son, Hastings, and her mother, Philadelphia Hancock, who was sister to the Rev. George Austen. Eliza married her cousin Henry after the Comte de Feuillide was guillotined. The grave is at St. John’s Parish Church, Hampstead Heath.
Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who inspired their imaginations and regaled them with stories of life in London and Paris where ...
May 11, 2021 · Eliza de Feuillide seemed fascinating and outlandish to her cousins in rural eighteen century England. When she visited their village, her appearance was electrifying. She was an attractive, accomplished French countess with a vivacious personality who inspired their imaginations and regaled them with stories of life in London and Paris where ...
Throughout her life, rumours circulated in India and England that she was the mistress of Warren Hastings, who was the godfather and suspected father of her daughter, Eliza de Feuillide. Biography. Hancock was born Philadelphia Austen on 15 May 1730 into a family that was part of the landed gentry. Her father, William Austen, was a surgeon.
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Unfortunately, aside from refuting gossip commonly spread by modern Austenites, Le Faye does not dig deep into Eliza de Feuillide's life. This book is merely an annotated edition of Eliza's surviving letters to her cousin Philadelphia Walter, plus extracts from some of her father's and from a handful of letters by other relations.
- Hardcover
- Deirdre Le Faye
