Harris Bigg-Wither

Standard Name: Bigg-Wither, Harris

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Austen
JA changed her mind and retracted her previous night's acceptance of a marriage proposal from Harris Bigg-Wither .
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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Family and Intimate relationships George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) accepted a proposal of marriage from a young artist, still unidentified, only to withdraw it when she apparently realised that her eager imagination had attributed to him attractions that...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
Despite initial misgivings, Waters says she found the stories—which she calls celebrations of Austen rather than tributes—a pleasure to read and a challenge to judge. She awarded first prize to Jane Austen over the Styx...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Hubback
On the topic of Jane Austen 's first accepting, then rejecting, the proposal of Harris Bigg-Wither , CH wrote that the acceptance must have been given in a momentary fit of self-delusion, and that Jane...

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