Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-11.
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Abbey School, Reading
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jane Austen | JA
and her sister
attended the Abbey School
at Reading. Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 31-3 |
| Education | Brigid Brophy | BB
's education (disrupted by the second war) included attending a state school (coeducational) and private schools both boys', girls', and mixed-sex. She was intellectually precocious at every stage. As a little girl at the... |
| Education | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
was taught until she was about eighteen by her schoolmistress aunt Arabella
. In 1792 she was enrolled as a boarder at the Abbey School
in Reading, where Jane Austen
had spent a... |
| Education | Elizabeth Taylor | Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
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