Cassandra Cooke

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From her girlhood in the later eighteenth century, CC had the habit of writing meditations, prayers, and poems on occasions in her life. As an adult she published a single historical novel. She planned to follow this with others, but they did not materialise.

Milestones

27 January 1744

Cassandra Leigh (later CC ) was born at Oxford (according to a date submitted to FamilySearch), the much younger of two surviving sisters.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1760

Cassandra Leigh (later CC ), still in her teens, wrote a prose Meditation upon the Vanity of all Sublunary Joys.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press.
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19 July 1799

CC 's single novel, Battleridge: An Historical Tale, Founded on Facts, which appeared as by a Lady of Quality, was advertised for sale. She did not intend this to be an only publication, but apparently it was.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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1826

CC died in her early eighties.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press.
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Biography

Birth and Family

27 January 1744

Cassandra Leigh (later CC ) was born at Oxford (according to a date submitted to FamilySearch), the much younger of two surviving sisters.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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