In 1828, five years after the death of Catherine's mother, her father married Martha Lloyd
, who had been Jane Austen's closest friend.
Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Austen
JA
's two youngest brothers, Francis William
and Charles John
, both joined the navy
as midshipmen, and both ended their successful careers as admirals. While she never left the south of England, they (and...
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, 1997, pp. 1-11.
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Textual Production
Jane Austen
A poem of JA
's in eleven stanzas, Lines to Martha Lloyd, was first published in the 1975-76 number of Nineteenth-Century Fiction.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Travel
Jane Austen
Their bereavement was followed by several rootless years. Joined by JA
's friend Martha Lloyd
, they spent even more time in protracted visits. They moved to a new Bath address, but finally left the...