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Austen met Cassandra Leigh while he was a student at Oxford. They married on 26 April 1764 and began their married life living in the rectory at Deane; in 1771 they moved to Steventon Parsonage, the birthplace of their daughter Jane. They had eight children: James Austen (1765–1819) George Austen (1766–1838) Edward Austen Knight (1767–1852)
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 (1696–1764) and ...
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Oct 10, 2009 · 9) I would add the sentence where the author writes that George “… was occasionally at the parsonage as a small boy.” and makes a reference note No. 14 to a letter by Cassandra Austen to Susannah Walter, 8 Nov. 1772, AP, p. 28 in which Mrs. Austen writes of “having all four at home”, which must at that date have included George.
Jun 20, 2010 · The “Memoir of Jane Austen” by Edward Austen-Leigh contains a letter from George Austen to Mr. Cadell, publisher, dated November 1797, in which he describes the work as a “manuscript novel comprising three volumes, about the length of Miss Burney’s ‘Evelina'” and asks Mr. Cadell if he would like to see the work with a view to ...
1904 Errata appended. AUSTEN, JANE (1775–1817), novelist, was born at Steventon, near Basingstoke, 16 Dec. 1775. Her father, George Austen, was rector of Deane and Steventon. He was married in 1764 to her mother, Cassandra, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thos. Leigh, and niece of Theophilus Leigh, for more than fifty years master of Balliol.
Mar 2, 2019 · Updated on March 02, 2019. Known for: popular novels of the Romantic period. Dates: December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817. About Jane Austen. Jane Austen's father, George Austen, was an Anglican clergyman, and raised his family in his parsonage.
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 ...
