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Oct 10, 2009 · A second “family secret” hitherto little mentioned is the existence of Jane Austen’s brother George, 10 years older than Jane, who “never learned to speak” and was boarded out for the rest of his life in another Hampshire village along with Thomas Leigh, Mrs. Austen’s mentally defective brother. This George Austen (perhaps the ...
Jane Austen's family and ancestry. 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 ...
Aug 26, 2019 · Courtesy of Wikipedia. Jane Austen’s disabled brother George Jr. died on 17 January 1838 at age of 71 from dropsy, an old-fashioned term for edema. No family members attended his funeral, and, by the 1860s, he was all but forgotten. He was completely left out by Caroline Austen in her 1867 memoir as she claimed that Edward was Jane’s second ...
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May 1, 2011 · In 1770, Mrs. Austen wrote to another sister-in-law that three-year-old George had suffered a fit for the first time in a twelvemonth. It is unclear what she meant by a “fit”–it is possible, of course, that George suffered from epilepsy. Mrs. Austen’s brother, Thomas Leigh, also had unspecified mental and/or physical problems.
George Austen, 1766 – 1838 Little is known about George who suffered from some form of mental disability. Following the custom of the day, George boarded with a family in a nearby village for most of his life along with his Uncle Thomas Leigh, Mrs Austen’s younger brother, who had a similar disability. Edward Austen, later Knight, 1767 – 1852
Jul 16, 2011 · Jane Austen had six brothers-- each with different talents, each contributing to her work in some way. James (1765-1819) Often thought by the family to be the "literary one" (see his poem on Sense and Sensibility), one of Austen's brothers James followed in his father's footsteps attending Oxford university at the age of 14 in 1779.
Aug 29, 2017 · George Austen, Jane Austen’s second oldest brother, was born in 1766, and from an early age he displayed some sort of disability that made him noticeably different from other children. We don’t know exactly what this disability was. We do know that he had “fits” (possibly seizures) at three and four years of age.
