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Eliza de Feuillide: Jane Austen’s “Outlandish Cousin”. Meetings. 1 Jan. By Laine Wood. JASNA-NC met on December 12, 2021, to learn about and discuss a paternal cousin of Jane Austen—Elizabeth Hancock de Feuillide Austen. Chapter members Gisele Rankin and Sue Scott co-hosted the discussion.
British Library, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 192 pages. Eliza de Feuillide is best known as the spirited first cousin of Jane Austen whose colourful life and travels are recounted...
Eliza fell in love with and married Jean-Francois Capot de Feuillide, who styled himself Count. The couple lived happily enough until the Revolution; fortunately, Eliza was in England when Jean-Francois was guillotined. After her mourning period ended, Eliza lived a highly social life in England, and wound up marrying Henry Austen.
Apr 25, 2022 · Eliza de Feuillide was born on 22 December 1761 in Calcutta, India, and was affectionately known as ‘Betsy’ within the family. Cousin Eliza made quite an impression on all the Austen family and it seemed they would all come to love her in some way. Portrait of Eliza Hancock (1761-1813), one of Jane Austen’s cousins, aka “Comtesse de Feuillide”.
Oct 24, 2017 · Eliza de Feuillide, nee Hancock (1761-1813), by an unknown artist. Visitors to the Jane Austen exhibition ( Which Jane Austen?) will have seen a small diary whose anonymous author attended a party in Paris where both Jane Austen’s aunt and cousin were present.
May 21, 2015 · 1813 was Jane Austen’s year of wonders. Pride and Prejudice was published, Mansfield Park finished, and she began work on the novel that would become Emma. But 1813 was also the year Eliza de Feuillide, the inspiration behind these novels, died after a painful, lingering illness, casting a sad shadow over an otherwise joyous chapter in the ...
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 ...
