SC
hinted in A Woman's Case that her husband was upset at her threatening his livelihood with the political rashness of her dedication. The man-in-skirts role became a favourite of David Garrick
, which kept...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Austen
The eldest of JA
's brothers, James
, was ten years her senior. He followed his father into a church career (having edited a literary periodical with his brother Henry during his student days). After...
Textual Production
Jane Austen
Some have attributed to JA
an essay in her brother James
's undergraduate periodical The Loiterer which is signed Sophia Sentiment; but the arguments are not persuasive, for its satire on sentimental girls is...
Timeline
25 June 1798: A new tax on the upper classes came into...
National or international item
25 June 1798
A new tax on the upper classes came into effect, levying two guineas for the privilege of running a coach or carriage with armorial bearings (that is, a coat of arms) painted on it.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
