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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information JANE AUSTEN: AFAMILY RECORD This book is the outcome of years of research in Austen archives, and stems from the original family biography by W. and R. A. Austen- Leigh, Jane Austen: her Life and Letters. Jane Austen: A Family Record was first published in 1989, and this new edition incorporates information that has come to light since then, and provides new illustrations and updated family trees. Le Faye gives a detailed account of Jane’s life and literary career. She has collected together documented facts as well as the traditions concerning the novelist, and places her within the context of a widespread, affectionate and talented family group. Readers will learn how Jane transformed the stuff of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside into six novels that are amongst the most popular in the English language. This fascinating record of Austen and her family will be of great interest to general readers and scholars alike. Deirdre Le Faye has been actively researching the life and times of Jane Austen and her family for the last thirty years. In 1995 she pre- pared a completely new edition of Jane Austen’s Letters. She has also written several other books: a short illustrated biography, Jane Austen (1998), Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish Cousin’, the Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide (2002) and Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels (2002)as well as numerous articles in literary journals. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information JANE AUSTEN: AFAMILY RECORD SECOND EDITION DEIRDRE LE FAYE © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521534178 © Deirdre Le Faye 1989; 2004 Th is publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published by Th e British Library 1989, 2011 Second Edition published by Cambridge University Press, 2004, 2012 Reprinted 2013 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Le Faye, Deirdre. Jane Austen: a family record / by Deirdre Le Faye. p. cm. Rev. ed. of: Jane Austen: a family record / by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh; revised and enlarged by Deirdre Le Faye, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. isbn 0 521 82691 8 – isbn 0 521 53417 8 (pbk.) 1. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817. 2. Austen, Jane, 1775–1817 – Family. 3. Novelists, English – 19th century – Family relationships. I. Austen-Leigh, William. Jane Austen, a family record. II. Title. pr4036.l433 2004 823΄.7–dc21 2003053232 isbn 978-0-521-82691-4 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-53417-8 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information Contents List of plates page vii Foreword by Joan Impey ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiv Notes and abbreviations xvi Chronology of Jane Austen’s life xviii 1 Austens and Leighs, 1600–1764 1 2 Deane and Steventon, 1764–75 13 3 India and France, 1752–85 29 4 Childhood at Steventon, 1775–86 41 5 Family life, 1786–92 53 6 First compositions, 1787–92 66 7 The young Jane, 1792–680 8 Later years at Steventon, 1796–995 9 The Leigh-Perrots and Bath, 1799–1801 118 10 Bath and the West Country, 1801–4 132 11 Bath and Southampton, 1804–8 145 12 Southampton and Chawton, 1808–9 164 13 First publication, 1809–12 180 14 Pride and Prejudice, 1813 194 15 Mansfield Park and Emma, 1814–15 209 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information vi List of contents 16 Emma and Persuasion, 1816–17 230 17 Biography, 1817 and after 255 Notes 286 Bibliography 321 Family pedigrees 345 Origin and descent of biographical information on Jane Austen 356 Index 359 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information Plates 1.‘NewMap of Hampshire’, by Charles Smith, c. 1801. Courtesy of Hampshire County Council Museum Service (ref. ACM 903.1/17). pages 14–15 2.Front view of Steventon rectory; wood-engraving as used in the Memoir of 1870. 16 3.Rear view of Steventon Rectory; drawing, probably by Anna Lefroy, 1814. 16 4.Manuscript page from Volume The Third of the Juvenilia, 1792. Courtesy of the British Library, BL Add.MS.65381,f.16v. 67 5. and 6.Revd and Mrs George Austen; silhouettes, c. 1800? Private family collection. 82 7.James (1765–1819), miniature c. 1790? Courtesy of Jane Austen Memorial Trust. 82 8.Edward (1767–1852), portrait, c. 1788 Courtesy of Richard Knight, esq. 82 9.Henry (1771–1850), miniature c. 1820? Private family collection. 82 10. Cassandra (1773–1845), silhouette, n.d. Private family collection. 82 11.Francis (1774–1865), miniature, 1796 Private family collection. 82 12. Charles (1779–1852), portrait, c. 1809. Private family collection. 82 13.Jane Austen (1775–1817), watercolour by Cassandra, c. 1810? Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London (reg. no. 3630). 83 14.Watercolour miniature made from the above, by James Andrews of Maidenhead, c. 1869. Private family collection. 83 vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information viii List of plates 15.Steel-engraved version of Andrews’s miniature, by Lizars, as used in the Memoir, 1870. 83 16.Map of Kent, taken from AJourney round the Coast of Kent (L. Fussell, London, 1818). 102–3 17.Godmersham Park, north front. Reproduced by permission of English Heritage, NMR. 109 18.Portrait miniature, attributed to Jeremiah Meyer, of Mrs Leigh-Perrot, ?1764. Private family collection. 119 19.Portrait miniature by John Smart of Mr Leigh-Perrot, 1764. Private family collection. 119 20.‘The City of Bath’, from AGuide to all the Watering and Sea Bathing Places, c. 1820. 133 21.Southampton – early nineteenth-century engraving of the medieval city walls as seen from the tidal inlet of Southampton Water. 158 22. Chawton Great House, west front. Courtesy of Richard Knight, esq. 173 23. Chawton Cottage (Jane Austen’s House Museum). 174 24.Manuscript page from the first version of Persuasion, 18 July 1816. Courtesy of the British Library, BL Egerton MS. 3038,f.14v. 237 25.No.8 College Street, Winchester. 249 26.Jane Austen, watercolour back view by Cassandra Austen, 1804. Courtesy of the great-grandsons of Admiral Francis Austen. 281 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-53417-8 - Jane Austen: A Family Record: Second Edition Deirdre Le Faye Frontmatter More information Foreword Richard Austen-Leigh and his uncle Willie Austen-Leigh combined in 1913 to publish the first Life and Letters of Jane Austen. They were descended from Jane’s nephew James Edward (respectively his grandson and his youngest son), and except for his Memoir little was known about her at that time. Richie was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked most of his life at Spottiswode, the family publishing business, with his elder brother Eddie. Their sister Kathleen married Edward Impey, who became a well-loved housemaster at Eton and had three sons. It was her son Lawrence Austen Impey (my husband) who inherited from Uncle Richie books and papers about Jane and her family. Among Uncle Richie’s books was his much-worn copy of the Life and Letters.Itwas stuffed to almost double its size with papers and correspondence he had about Jane, and filled with notes. Our friend Deirdre Le Faye considered he was clearly planning a revised edition. She is a scholar devoted to Jane Austen, work- ing at the British Museum, and has written many papers on Jane and her family. She has studied the letters, diaries, etc., left by Uncle Richie and so I asked her if she would take on the task of revision, adding the new material and bringing it up to date for publication. We feel this book, being the first main source of knowledge about Jane Austen, will be welcomed by scholars all over the world.
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