Her mother, born Ann Bee
, died on 5 October 1766, and a widowed aunt, another Cassandra, came to keep house for the family.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Material Conditions of Writing
Cassandra Cooke
Cassandra Leigh (later CC
) wrote a prayer after my dear Mother
's death, which had happened four days before this. This was apparently her last writing to survive until sixteen years later.
Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
