James Edward Austen-Leigh

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...

Generations of JA readers lacked any image of her except silhouettes which give little away, a back view, and an unsatisfactory, unfinished sketch by her sister Cassandra . From this, various new versions have been...

The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...

CH left sketch-books which a hundred years after her death were described in print by one of her descendants as a Peepshow on Victorian Life. In March 1870 she was corresponding with James Austen-Leigh

Because a grand-daughter (Mary-Melusina, daughter of Richard Chenevix Trench) married a son of James Edward Austen-Leigh (first biographer of his aunt Jane Austen ), MT 's papers are now housed with the Austen-Leigh papers at...