The Real Jane Austen
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Gothic novels 79–80
home and family 6–7, 25–6, 40–6, 63, 99–100, 102–5, 123–5, 133, 136, 161, 218, 238–47
inheritance and great houses 225–35, 325
love, romance and femmes fatales 104–6, 133, 149–50, 170–1, 184–5, 188–90, 273
militia 124–31
naval matters 237–51
novelists and poets 40, 55–61, 64, 80–1, 88–9, 118–19, 218–19
religion 204–8, 210
riots and revolutions 44, 45–50
seaside 313–24
shops and shopping 153–5
slavery and civil rights 215–23
literary works
‘The Beautifull Cassandra’ 63
‘Catharine, or the Bower’ 30–1, 47–8, 53
‘A Collection of Letters’ 59–60
‘Edgar and Emma’ 65
‘Elinor and Marianne’ 102, 105, 106, 166, 274
Emma 9, 27, 86, 101, 142, 170, 234, 253–5, 289, 291, 295, 296
‘First Impressions’ 102, 157, 166
‘Frederic and Elfrida: a novel’ 56–7
‘Henry and Eliza’ 63, 130
‘History of England’ 53, 61–4
‘Jack and Alice: a novel’ 57–9
Lady Susan 166, 270–4
‘Lesley Castle’ 59
‘A Letter From a Young Lady’ 102
‘Love and Freindship’ 64, 71, 117–18
Mansfield Park 9, 25–6, 30, 89, 112, 119–20, 123, 130, 133, 136–7, 138, 147–50, 161, 185, 205–7, 217, 220, 221–3, 231, 232, 233, 240, 242–3, 247–51, 273, 285–7, 291, 295, 301, 321
Northanger Abbey 48–50, 72, 79, 80, 83, 87, 113–14, 115–16, 127–8, 153, 157, 167, 168–71, 265
Persuasion 26, 100, 105, 112–13, 123, 208, 221, 234, 249, 251, 261, 265, 291, 303, 319–20
Pride and Prejudice 9, 77, 81, 103, 112, 119, 128, 131, 142, 147, 153, 183–4, 185, 205, 207, 208, 217, 234, 282–5, 294, 297–303
Sanditon 77, 79, 113, 265, 291, 322–5
Sense and Sensibility 9, 66, 103–5, 106, 115, 124, 131, 133, 166, 184, 185, 234, 261–2, 265, 274–5, 278–81, 295
Sir Charles Grandison or the Happy Man 141
‘Susan’ 165–6, 274, 276–7
‘The Three Sisters’ 102
Vellum Notebooks (juvenile writings) 53–72, 102, 113, 139, 159, 176, 190, 271, 303
The Watsons 165, 271, 274–5
Austen, Jane (great-aunt) 16
Austen, Lady 26
Austen, Leonora (b.1733) 31–2, 219
Austen, Martha Lloyd (1765–1843)
character and description 95
correspondence with Jane 112
Jane buys shoes for 159
kindness to Mary Benn 294
marriage to Frank 94
relationship with Jane 95, 157, 244–5
Austen, Mary Gibson
marriage to Frank 226, 244
pregnancy and confinement 245
Austen, Mary Lloyd (1771–1843)
comment on Lyme Regis 2
correspondence with Mrs Austen concerning Stoneleigh 229–31
Jane’s comment on her pregnancy 185
marriage to James 94
relationship with Jane 98–9
scarred by smallpox 95
and story of Jane’s engagement to Harris Bigg 181
Austen, Mary-Jane 245
Austen, Philadelphia ‘Phila’ see Hancock, Philadelphia
Austen, Rebecca (d.1733) 31, 219–20
Austen, Stephen 31
Austen, Tom 19
Austen, William (d.1737) 31, 219
Austen-Leigh family 267
Austen-Leigh, James Edward 6, 189–90, 292, 327
Bagshot Heath 113
Balliol College, Oxford 83
Banks, Sir Joseph 76
Barbados 219
Barmouth 315
Barrow, John, Some Account of the Public Life and a Selection from the Unpublished Writings of the Earl of Macartney 251
Barrymore, Earl of 137
Barton Court, Kintbury 95
Bath 6, 195, 245
Austen family’s move to 1, 76, 135, 159–60, 165, 178, 220, 226, 270
entertainments and diversions in 146, 158–9, 166–71
famous for electroanalgesia 157–8
Lower Rooms 166–7, 168–9
New Assembly Rooms 167–8
shoplifting episode 161–3
shopping in 153, 155, 158, 159
Sydney Gardens 159, 165
visits to 14, 15, 88, 156–7
Bath Chronicle 155
bathing machines 311–15
Beckford, Alderman 220–1
Beckford, Charlotte-Maria 305
Beckford, William 220–1, 305
Bedlam Hospital 18, 227
Belle, Dido 213, 214, 215
Benn, Mary 283, 294
Bentley, Richard 327
Berry, Lieutenant William 245–6
Bessborough, Lady 281
Betham, Matilda 271
Bickerstaff, Isaac
The Hypocrite 145
The Spoilt Child 140
Bigeon, Madame 45, 132
Bigg, Alethea 94, 181, 183
Bigg, Catherine 94–5, 181, 183
Bigg family 175
Bigg-Wither, Harris 181–3, 226
Bigg-Wither family 139, 226
Billington, Elizabeth 142
Blackall, Revd Samuel 178–9, 185
Bodleian Library (Oxford) 53, 76–7
Bolton, Duchess of 194
Bombay Castle (ship) 32
Brabourne, Lord 8
Bridges, Revd Edward Brook 177
Bridges, Elizabeth 99
Bridges, Lady 177
Brighton 125–6, 128, 321
British Critic 282
British Library 53, 267
Brontë, Charlotte 235
Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton 194
Buller, Richard 20, 21–2, 316
Burke, Edmund 76
Burney, Charles 75
Burney, Fanny 277
admired by Jane 64, 88, 89
comment on being dipped in the sea 313
comment on the Hawke sisters 85
comments on her characters 81–2
defends the novel 79
frequent visitor to the Cookes 83
marriage to John Thorpe 83
quoted by Jane 17
witness madness of George III 19
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth, By the Author of Evelina and Cecilia 75–6, 77, 79, 81, 82–3, 88, 270
Cecilia 81–2, 88, 142
Evelina 79, 82, 85, 139, 170
The Wanderer 84, 89
Burns, Robert 270
Byrne, Patrick 70
Byron, Captain ‘Mad’ Jack 92
Byron, Admiral ‘Fairweather’ Jack 92
Byron, Lord 21, 92, 234, 283
The Corsair 92
Cadell and Davies, publishers 75, 278
Cadell, Thomas 270
Calcutta 29, 34
Carlton House 298
Caroline, Princess 298, 299
Cawley, Mrs 23
Centlivre, Susanna, The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret 137
Chapman, R.W. 322
Charles I 61, 84
Charles Stuart, Prince ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ 61
Charlotte Augusta, Princess 281
Charlotte, Princess 299, 302
Charmouth 1, 315, 328–9
Chatsworth House 228
Chawton 6, 27, 29–30, 139, 209, 269, 271, 294
Chawton Cottage 116, 285
Chawton House 235
Chawton Manor 258–9
Cheltenham 120
children 256–65
China 37, 250–1
Chute family 15
Clapham sect (or The Saints) 201–2
Clarence, Duke of 145
Clarke, Revd James Stanier 183, 297–8, 299, 302, 303
Clarkson, Th
omas 7, 72, 218–19, 223
History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade 218, 219, 222
Clergy Ordination Act (1804) 204–5
Clive, Robert 33, 34, 36
Cobbett, William 110
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 26, 72
Colman, George 136
(with David Garrick) The Clandestine Marriage 119
Colyton 22, 315, 316
A Companion to the Altar (book) 205
Cooke, Cassandra Leigh 83
Battleridge: An Historical Tale 84–5
Cooke, Edward (blanket weaver) 127
Cooke, Mary 83
Cooke, Samuel 16, 83–4
Cooper, Dr 23
Cooper, Edward 23, 24, 64, 201
Two Sermons Preached in the Old and the New Churches at Wolverhampton, preparatory to the Establishment of a Bible-Institution 201
Cooper family 14, 137
Cooper, Jane 23–4
Cowley, Hannah
The Belle’s Stratagem 139
Which is the Man? 139
Cowper, William 25–7, 218, 229
‘Epistle to Joseph Hill’ 229
The Task 26, 216, 229
Tirocinium 25–6
Craven, Lord 95
Critical Review 282
Cromwell, Oliver 61, 84
Crosby and Co. publishers 270–1, 276–7, 289
Crosby, Richard 277
Crosse, Richard 193
Crown (ship) 239
Culham, Francis 18
d’Antraigues, Comte 132–3
d’Arblay, General Alexandre 83
d’Arblay, Madame see Burney, Fanny
Darcy, Lady Amelia 92
Dawlish 2, 315, 316–17
Deane, George (or Henry) 20
Deane parsonage 36, 200
The Devil to Pay (play) 147
Digweed family 173
Digweed, Harry 178, 269
Dundas, Mrs 95
Dusautoy, Miss 294
East, Gilbert 20
East India Company 30, 32, 33–4, 36, 76
East Indies 7, 30, 31, 32, 33, 39, 57, 76, 124, 239, 251, 268
Eastwell Park (Kent) 214
Ecclesford (Cornwall) 137
Edgeworth, Maria 76, 86–7, 88, 109, 203
Belinda 81, 87
Castle Rackrent 87
Leonora 87
Patronage 87, 89
Tales of Fashionable Life 87
Edwin, Elizabeth 146
Egerton, Thomas 67, 130–1, 132, 277–9, 285, 286, 308
Eldridge, Henry 186
Elizabeth I 61, 64
Elliston, Robert 146–7
Endymion 237
Evangelical movement 7, 200–3
de Feuillide, Eliza Hancock (1761–1813)
adventurous life of 41, 42, 45–6
at the seaside 312
character and description 40–1, 132–3
comments on the Austen children 44, 46
correspondence of 219
death of her mother 42
education 38
enjoys visits to Steventon 41–2, 43–4
execution of her husband 46
hears news of French atrocities 44
illegitimate daughter of Warren Hastings 36–7, 38
illness and death 133
illness and miscarriage 43
involved in London riots 42–3
marriage to Henry Austen 129–33, 142
marriage to Jean-François 38–9
as muse for Jane 133
son suffers from fits 19, 44–5
and theatricals at Steventon 138–9
visited by James Austen 66–7
de Feuillide, Hastings 19, 40, 42, 44–5, 132, 312
de Feuillide, Jean-François Capot 38–9, 40, 42, 46
Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones 80, 175
Tragedy of Tragedies, or the History of Tom Thumb the Great 55–6, 139
Finch-Hatton, Daniel 256
Finch-Hatton, George 214
Fletcher, John 137
Fonthill Abbey 221
food shortages and riots 126–7
Fowle, Charles 20, 178
Fowle, Eliza Lloyd 94
Fowle, Fulwar Craven 20, 94
Fowle, Tom 20, 22, 93–5, 102, 105, 137, 177, 186
Fowle, William 20
French Revolution 45–6, 47–8, 50, 66, 126
games 253–7, 259
Garrick, David 76, 136, 137
The Chances 137, 138–9
(with George Colman) The Clandestine Marriage 119
Gentleman’s Magazine 196
George III 19, 70, 227, 297, 313, 320
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 76, 281
Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 270
Gibson, Mary 284
Gifford, William 295, 303
Gilpin, William, Observations, relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty Made in the Year 1776 in Several Parts of Great Britain, particularly in Scotland 118–19
Gisborne, Thomas 201
Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex 140–1
Godmersham (Kent) 140, 214, 225, 235, 245, 268, 286
Goethe, J.W. von, The Sorrows of Young Werther 66
Goldsmith, Oliver
History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II 60–1, 62
She Stoops to Conquer 147
The Vicar of Wakefield 66
Goodenough, William 20
Goodnestone Park 110, 111, 225, 235
Graham, Dr James 157–8
Grant, Elizabeth 313
Great Bookham 83, 84
Grenada 219
Gunn, Martha 314
Habeas Corpus Act 215
Hackitt, Sarah ‘Madame Latournelle’ 24
Hackwood Park 194
Haddon’s (or Week’s) plantation (Antigua) 220
Halford, Sir Henry 297
Hampden, John 61
Hampson family 219
Hampson, Sir George 220
Hampson, Rebecca see Austen, Rebecca
Hampson, Sir Thomas 220
Hancock, Eliza (b.1761) see de Feuillide, Eliza
Hancock, Philadelphia ‘Phila’ Austen (1730–92) 219
apprenticed to milliner in Covent Garden 32
birth of Eliza 36
childhood 31–2
death of 42
given an Indian shawl 29
marriage 34–5
relationship with Warren Hastings 36–7
remains in England after husband’s return to India 37–8
sent to India 32–4
travels in Europe 38
Hancock, Tysoe Saul (d.1775) 17, 33–4, 37–8, 39
Hanson, Miss 21
Hardy, Thomas 50
Harrison, Elizabeth-Matilda Butler 256
Harrison, Frederick 50
Harrison, Mrs 19
Hastings, Elizabeth (b.1758) 34
Hastings, George (b.1757) 14, 34, 35–6, 41
Hastings, Mary Elliott (d.1759) 32, 34
Hastings, Warren
illegitimate daughter 35–7
marriage to Mary Elliott 34
sends letter of praise to Jane 283
supports Burney’s novel Camilla 76
told of his goddaughter’s marriage 130
trades in opium for East India Company 34, 39
Hawke, Cassandra 85, 231
Julia de Gramont 85
Hawke, Elizabeth 85
Hawkins, Laetitia M., Rosanne 78–9
Hayley, William, The Mausoleum 69
Haymarket Theatre (London) 141, 142
Heath, William 311, 314
Heathcote, Sir William 139
Henry II 228
Hill, Constance 318
Hill, Joseph 226, 229
Hoare, Charles 316
Holder, James 220
Holder, William 220
Holt-Leigh, Robert 231
&
nbsp; home 25–7
homosexuality 241–3, 244
Hume, David, History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 60
Hursley Park (Hampshire) 139
Hurstbourne Park 20, 21, 235
Illusion; or the Trances of Nourjahad (play) 146
India 32–5, 40, 47
Isle of Wight 1, 183, 237, 245
Jamaica 219
James I 200
Jane Shore (play) 194
Jekyll, Joseph 162
Jenner, Dr Edward 194
Johnson, Samuel 218
Lives of the English Poets 270
Jones, W. 70
Jordan, Dora 139, 145
Kashmir 29
Kean, Edmund 144–5, 147
Keats, John, Endymion 316
Kempshott Park 235
Kenwood House (Hampstead) 213–14
Knatchbull, Sir Edward 105
Knatchbull, Mary 105–6
Knight, Cassandra 177
Knight, Catherine 14, 63, 279–80
Knight, Edward Austen (1767–1852)
adopted by the Knights 14–15, 24, 25, 125
caricatured by Cassandra 64
childhood 18
death of 239
distraught at elopement of Edward Knight and Mary Knatchbull 105–6
enjoyment of theatricals 139–40
as father of eleven children 256
health of 156
as literary inspiration for Jane 27
marriage to Elizabeth Bridges 99, 111
rents Chawton Cottage to Jane 258
visited by Jane and the family 225
visits to Bath 156–7
Knight, Edward (nephew) 105–6, 120, 140, 290
Knight, Elizabeth Bridges 201, 225, 257
Knight, Fanny, Lady Knatchbull (1793–1882)
correspondence with Jane 202, 259, 290
death of 8
given advice on courtship and marriage 188, 202
given advice on her novel 291
given advice on religion 202–3
governess of 140, 260
marriage to Edward Knatchbull 105
relationship with Jane 102
Knight, George 259
Knight, Louisa 177, 286
Knight, Marianne 286
Knight, Thomas 14, 63
Knight, William 225, 256
Knox, Vicesimus, Elegant Extracts: or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose Selected for the Improvement of Scholars 62
Kotzebue, August von, The Birth-Day 158
La Ligurienne (French brig) 244
Lamballe, Princess de 44
lap-desk see writing boxes
Lavater, Johann Caspar 13
Laverstock House 235
Le Scipio (French privateer) 237
Lefroy, Anna (Jane Anna Elizabeth Austen, 1793–1872) 256, 265, 280, 290–1
birth of her daughter Jemima 190
comment on Cassandra’s sketch of Jane 327
comment on Henry Austen 125
comment on Jane and Cassandra’s strong bond 106
correspondence with Jane 144, 190, 259–60
description of Jane 304–5
hears about Lyme Regis 2
Jane’s comment on Anna’s proposed marriage 19