Cassandra Austen

Standard Name: Austen, Cassandra

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Textual Production Jane Austen
John Murray was apparently planning a collected edition of JA 's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...
Education Jane Austen
JA , her sister , and her cousin Jane Cooper began on what became about six months away from home for the sake of schooling.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press.
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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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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Health Jane Austen
At school in Southampton, JA and her sister and cousin fell seriously ill with typhus and were brought home.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press.
93
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
31
Education Jane Austen
JA and her sister attended the Abbey School at Reading.
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.
2
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
31-3
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Austen
The Rev. Tom Fowle, fiancé of JA 's sister, Cassandra , died of fever at Santo Domingo in the Caribbean.
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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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Residence Jane Austen
Following her father 's retirement on health grounds, JA moved with her parents and sister from Steventon in Hampshire to 4 Sydney Place, Bath.
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.
6
Travel Jane Austen
JA , Cassandra , and their mother moved to furnished lodgings at 25 Gay Street, Bath.
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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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Residence Jane Austen
JA , with her mother , her sister , and their friend Martha Lloyd , moved from Southampton to the security of Chawton Cottage in Hampshire.
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.
8
Residence Jane Austen
JA 's sister, Cassandra , moved with her from Chawton to 8 College Street, Winchester, for the sake of a Hospital & capital Surgeons.
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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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Textual Production Jane Austen
According to JA 's sister Cassandra the planning and writing of Mansfield Park, her longest novel, took Austen about twenty-nine months.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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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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Textual Production Jane Austen
JA 's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously together, through the agency of her sister Cassandra : the title-page said 1818.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships Jane Austen
JA 's most important relationship was with her sister, Cassandra , who after Jane's death called her the sun of my life.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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The two shared a room (though not a bed) and corresponded regularly...
Leisure and Society Jane Austen
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...
Performance of text Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people).
Dow, Gillian. “Books owned by Jane Austen’s niece, Caroline, donated to Chawton House Library”. The Female Spectator, Vol.
1 n.s.
, No. 4, pp. 1-3.
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The work was several times translated into English (beginning in late 1780) as The Theatre of Education. A...
Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Hubback
Once she became a writer herself, CH drew some capital from her relationship to her famous aunt, Jane Austen , who died the year before she was born. Tradition later said that as a little...

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