Alexandre d' Arblay

Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. In his professional capacity he worried about competing with the Methodists

FB first met Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste de Piochard d'Arblay , a refugee from revolutionary France.

FB and Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste de Piochard d'Arblay were married at St Michael's, Mickleham, Surrey, after weathering strong opposition.

One of her associates in her English visit was the future husband of Frances Burney . Burney thought her a woman of the first abilities, very much in the style of Mrs Thrale but with...

FB , having left her home at Camilla Cottage, arrived in Paris with her small son to join her husband .

FB and her husband returned to France, leaving their son at Cambridge University (where he had opted to remain) and intending to settle.

After her husband 's death, FB moved back from Bath to London.

A curious text closely related to the journals though not part of them consists of four large notebooks written in French in FB 's hand during the years of her residence abroad, with corrections by...

FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.

FB heard that her husband lay wounded (by a kick from a horse) at Trèves (now Trier) in Germany, and at once set out alone from Brussels, across war-ravaged Europe to help him.

The year before her husband 's death (and while he was away on a visit to France) FB underwent an extraordinary adventure when she was cut off by the tide on the cliffs above the...