JA
's father, the Rev. George Austen
, was a scholar who sold produce from his farm and took boarding pupils to teach, to supplement his stipend as rector and in the hope of paying...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Austen
JA
's third brother, Edward
, was adopted—despite their father
's slight reluctance—by wealthy cousins, the Knights, as their heir.
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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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Austen
JA
's father, the Rev. George Austen
, died in 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, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
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Publishing
Jane Austen
JA
's father
wrote to offer her First Impressions, anonymously, to the quality publishers Cadell and Davies
; his offer to send the manuscript was declined by return of post.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
123
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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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, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Textual Production
Jane Austen
JA
laid aside her fragmentary, unfinished novel The Watsons.
Critic Jan Fergus
thinks that she probably never went back to it after Anne Lefroy
's death. Biographer Claire Tomalin
thinks it was her father