JA
caused comment by her public flirting with Tom Lefroy
, a young Irishman, nephew of her friend Anne (Brydges) Lefroy
; the relationship came to nothing.
On JA
's twenty-ninth birthday her good friend Anne (Brydges) Lefroy
died from injuries sustained when she fell from a horse.
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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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
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Jane Austen
JA
marked her birthday, the fourth anniversary of Anne Lefroy
's death, with an elegiac poem.
Austen, Jane. Minor Works. Editor Chapman, Robert William, Revised, Oxford University Press, 1965.