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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. Rev. George Austen was by all accounts a handsome man.
He married their first cousin (and Jane's close friend), Eliza de Feuillide, who was the daughter of their father's sister, Philadelphia Austen Hancock. George was sent to live with a local family at a young age because, according to Austen biographer Le Faye, he was "mentally abnormal and subject to fits"; [19] he may also have been deaf and mute.
Apr 25, 2017 · Written by Matthew Coniam. A look at James Cawthorn, George Austen and the Curious Case of the Schoolboy Who Was Killed by Martin J. Cawthorne Jane Austen’s father, George Austen has many connections to the city of Bath. On the 26th April 1764 he married, by special licence, Cassandra Leigh in St Swithin’s, Walcot. The Austen family were regu.
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Cassandra, Austen’s mother, was of a higher social class. She was part of the aristocratic Leigh family. The two married in April of 1764 in Bath. Unfortunately, even with his work in Steventon and Deane, Austen’s father had to take on farming and teaching jobs from 1773 to 1796 to supplement his income.
Austen’s father was a clergyman in Steventon, and Jane lived more than half her life there. While there, a teenaged Jane began drafting three of her novels. Unfortunately, the rectory was...
Rev. George Austen, 1731 – 1805 Jane’s father George Austen studied at St John’s College Oxford and was ordained in 1755. Tall, slim and good-looking with chestnut brown hair and bright hazel eyes, he was known as ‘the handsome Proctor’ during his time at Oxford.
