Jean-François Capotte, comte de Feuillide, husband of JA
's loved and admired older cousin Eliza de Feuillide
, was guillotined in Paris.
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, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Austen
The fourth Austen brother, Henry Thomas
(to whom Jane was particularly close), became a banker, but after his bank failed in 1816 he was, like his eldest brother, ordained as a clergyman. He married as...
Literary responses
Jane Austen
Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society
in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul
, in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from...
Literary responses
Hannah Cowley
The Critical Review gave it a mixed and fairly unenthusiastic notice: it thought the play offered less pleasure to a reader than to an audience.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
This epistolary novella would thus be associated with a visit to the Austen family of the recently widowed Eliza de Feuillide
(JA
's cousin, and later her sister-in-law). Eliza was nothing like the scheming...
Textual Production
Mary Stockdale
MS
(as Miss Stockdale) issued through her father
's firmThe Family Book; or, Children's Journal, translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin
, Interspers'd with Poetical Pieces written by the Translator...
Timeline
About 27 March 1782: Eliza Hancock, aged nineteen, married Jean-François...
Building item
About 27 March 1782
Eliza Hancock
, aged nineteen, married Jean-François Capot de Feuillide
, a Frenchman who claimed to be a count and who inaccurately supposed her to be a wealthy heiress.
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.