Anna Lefroy

The eldest of JA 's brothers, James , was ten years her senior. He followed his father into a church career (having edited a literary periodical with his brother Henry during his student days). After...

In later years there was some dissension among the descendants about the family legacy: by 8 August 1862 Anna Lefroy had become suspicious of CH 's role as guardian of their aunt's memory.

This novel was the second of RH 's to be affectionately mocked by Jane Austen . Austen sent her niece the future Anna Lefroy a letter purportedly for delivery to RH herself, in the formal...

CH 's use of her aunt's work evidently rankled with some family members. On 8 August 1862 Anna Lefroy (daughter of the eldest Austen brother) wrote that the manuscript of the unfinished Sanditon was at...

JA wrote of this novel, I can no more forget it, than a mother can forget her sucking child. She published it as a Lady: the only one issued this way, since later...

Its unfinished condition has been seen as an invitation by many later writers, beginning with Austen's niece Anna Lefroy . Reginald Hill dedicated his, A Cure for All Diseases (2008, titled The Price of Butcher's...