Memoir of Jane Austen
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INDEX
Abercromby, General Sir Ralph 56 and note
Alton, Hants 67, 127, 159, 171
Amateur theatricals 28 and note
Amiens, Treaty of 27
Austen family, origins of 10–11
Austen, Anna, see Lefroy, Jane Anna Elizabeth
Austen, Caroline Mary Craven (1805–80 JA’s niece, daughter of James) ill. 164, 180
describes Chawton Cottage 167–8
closeness in later years to Aunt Cassandra 162
and JA: character and appearance 169
JA and children 72–3, 169, 174
JA’s daily routine 170–1
letter from JA 127
JA’s relationship to Cassandra 175
possible JA romances 186, 187–8
JA’s dexterity 77–9, 171
JA’s singing 193
JA’s portrait 192
JA’s writing 172–3
JA’s last illness 127–8, 177–82
JA’s funeral 187
objects to making public JA’s last verses 190–1
inherits JA memorabilia 59n.
literary activities: childhood stories 42, 174
helps JEAL with Memoir 10 and passim, 185–8, 193
Memoir of My Aunt Jane Austen 163–82, 262 headnote
Reminiscences 49 n., 170n.
Austen, Cassandra (1739–1827 JA’s mother), Mrs George Austen (née Leigh): ancestry 11 and note, 44
marriage and early days at Deane 11, 13
character and traits in common with JA 15
health 15, 177
gardening 31 n.; offer of Chawton Cottage 67, 166–7
death 15
and family: fostering out of children 39 and note
and story of JA’s refusal to be separated from Cassandra 18, 160
domestic routine at Chawton 168, 171
Leigh Perrot will 120n.
on JA’s death 197–8
Austen, Cassandra Elizabeth (1773–1845; JA’s sister): character 19
boarding school 18
and note, 28
engagement 28
and note
death 69
‘the best of then living Authorities’ 162
Caroline Austen on 169, 188
and Godmersham, Kent 158
excursion to the Wye with brother Charles 192
and JA: their closeness 18–19 and note, 175, 198
memorandum of JA’s novels 44n.
portrait of JA 70 and note, 192
‘does not like desultory novels’ 76
in JA’s last illness 128–31, 142, 150, 179, 182, 187
destroys JA’s letters 174
dispersal of JA’s manuscripts and memorabilia 43n., 50 n., 184
Austen, Cassandra (Cassy) Esten (1808–97 JA’s niece): as child 89 and note, 170, 174
co-operates with JEAL on Memoir 40n., 63n., 84n., 97n., 184, 192
memorabilia of JA 184 and note
Austen, Catherine Anne, see Hubback, Catherine Anne
Austen, Charles John (1779–1852; JA’s brother) 55–7, 64–5, 123–4
character 17–18
childhood anecdote of 160
naval career 17–18
and note
death 17
and family: gives crosses to sisters 56 and note
children 170 and note
receives news of Leigh Perrot will 120 and note
excursion to the Wye with sister Cassandra 192
and JA: details from his naval experiences incorporated in her novels 17n., 56n.
letter from JA 120 and note
not at her funeral 187
Austen, Edward, see Knight, Edward
Austen, Edward, see Austen-Leigh, James Edward
Austen, Elizabeth (1773–1808; JA’s sister-in-law, née Bridges) 67n., 158 n.
Anna Lefroy on her lack of fondness for JA 158
Austen, Elizabeth, see Feuillide, Eliza de
Austen, Fanny Catherine, see Knight, Fanny Catherine
Austen, Francis (Frank) William (1774–1865 JA’s brother): ‘Fly’ 36n.
character 17 and note
childhood anecdote of 36 and note
naval career 17 and note, 56
disappointment at missing Battle of Trafalgar 56n.
living at Chawton and Alton 170 and note
his death prompts preparation of Memoir 166 and note
and family: shares house with mother and sisters in Southampton 65n.
‘many children’ 73 and note, 121 and note, 170 and note
re-marriage to Martha Lloyd 53n.
and JA: letters from JA (not to be printed by JEAL) 17n., 69n., 173
Captain Harville in P modelled on 17n.
writes to Ben Lefroy of JA’s death 197
at JA’s funeral 187, 198
gives away JA autograph 114–15
inherits JA manuscripts 184
Austen, Revd George (1731–1805; JA’s father) 10–11 and note, 13, 137, 167, 188–9
appearance 15
coaches pupils 15, 26 and note
literary taste 137, 147
death 59, 62 and note
and JA: dedicatee 40
letter to Cadell 105 and note, 185
‘Where are the Girls?’ 157
Austen, George (1766–1838 JA’s brother) 16n.
Austen, Henry Edgar (1811–54, JA’s nephew and Frank’s son) 73 and note
Austen, Henry Thomas (1771–1850; JA’s brother), ill.136
character and biography 16–17 and note, 63, 257
letter to Warren Hastings 13n.
illness and recovery 91–2, 175–6
failure of bank 101 and note, 120
and note, 170 and note; ordination / ‘Our own new clergyman’ 126
and family: marriage to Eliza de Feuillide 27
literary activities: The Loiterer 16 n.
‘superior sermons’ 123
‘Biographical Notice of the Author’ 135–43, 257 headnote
‘Memoir of Miss Austen’ 145–54, 258–9 headnote
and JA: entertains JA in London 86–9
reading MP 88–9
negotiations on novels 99–100, 106 and note
and JA’s last illness 129, 130, 187
JA’s ‘especial pride and delight’ 175 and note
no letters from JA kept 184
unlucky allusion to JA’s deathbed verses 190 and note
arranges JA’s funeral 198
sells JA copyrights to Richard Bentley, publisher 258
Austen, Revd James (1765–1819 JA’s brother) 16, 52
produces amateur theatricals 28 and note
inhabits Steventon rectory 29n., 50
illness and death 126 and note
and family: ‘my own father’ (JEAL) 16
re-marriage to Mary Lloyd 53
visits Henry Austen when ill 175
arranges Uncle Leigh Perrot’s affairs after death 178
literary activities: The Loiterer 16 and note
his poetry quoted 21 and note, 24 and note
author of prologues and epilogues 28 and note
and JA: directs JA’s early reading 16
writes to JA 121
JA sends message to 123–4
in Winchester during JA’s final illness 130, 187
not at JA’s funeral 9, 187
AUSTEN, JANE (1775–1817) ill.2
appearance 44, 70, 139, 158, 169
books and reading 71n., 85, 141, 172
‘I detest a quarto’ 85
‘she seldom changed her opinions either on books or men’ 141
chronology lviii–lxii; enthusiasm for navy 197
favourite authors 71–2, 141
languages 28, 70–1 and note, 183
love of dancing 32, 139
music 34n., 139, 170–1, 183
opinions on history 71, 173
politics 18, 71, 173
portraits 192
sewing a
nd manual dexterity 77–9
songs 70, 193 and note, 194
voice 70, 140, 174–5, 194
life: birth and baptism 10, 157
early years at Steventon 21–7, 32n., 36–7, 39
earliest anecdote of 160–2
possible love affairs 28–9, 186, 187–8, 191–2 at Bath 58–65
at Southampton 65–7
at seaside 59–61, 63n., 188
move to Chawton 67, 166–7
household duties at Chawton 171
‘with Chawton … that her name as an Author, must be identified’ 166
visits to London 86–9, 91–3, 99–101, 149–50
last known letter 120 and note, 130, 142, 150–1
final illness, last words, and death 124, 126–31, 138, 147–8, 187
grave in Winchester Cathedral 131, 138, 187, 198
and family: closeness to sister 18–19, 160, 175
strong family unity 19, 170, 175
nurses Henry Austen 91–2, 175–6
on JEAL 126
and Eliza de Feuillide 27n., 28
and Fanny Knight 84, 89, 158–9, 260 headnote
and Anna Austen Lefroy 73, 75, 76–7 and note, 158–9
shock at Leigh Perrot will 120 and note
and Mary Lloyd 79 and note, 131 and note
and friends: the Fowles 120, 178 and note, 193–4 and note
Anne Lefroy 44 and note, 49–50, 186
the Lloyds 53 and note, 62 and note, 63n., 67, 79, 120–1, 166
the Bigg-Wither family 29n., 54 and note, 110, 126–7, 128, 129, 179, 187–8, 191
Bath society 61–5
Chawton society 171–2
Chawton Reading Club 106 and note
and publishers: Thomas Cadell 105 and note
Crosby and Co. 105 and note
Thomas Egerton 82n.
John Murray 82n., 99–102
methods of publication 100n.
novel profits 82 and note
qualities: inherited features 15, 137
character 132, 139, 148
powers of observation 116
distress at leaving Steventon 50 and note, 185
love of natural scenery 24–6
Christian beliefs 79–80, 141, 153–4
kindness to children 72–3
love of the ridiculous 73–4
seclusion from literary world 90, 149–50, 151
non-family recollections of JA: Ann Barrett 196–7
Egerton Brydges 44 and note
Fulwar William Fowle 194
Mary Russell Mitford 133–4 and note
her letters: ‘not to expect too much from them’ 50
‘more truly descriptive of her temper … than any thing which the pen of a biographer can produce’ 142
‘no transcript of her mind’ 174
to Cassandra Austen 51–3, 56, 56–7, 59–61, 61–3, 63–5, 83–9
to Charles Austen 120 and note
to Martha Lloyd 54–5
to Anna Austen Lefroy 72, 74, 76–7, 106–7, 119
to JEAL 120–2, 122–4, 129–30, 142
to Caroline Austen 127
to an unnamed correspondent (Mrs Frances Tilson?) 120 and note, 130, 142
to Alethea Bigg 126–7
to James Stanier Clarke 92–3, 94–5, 95–6
to John Murray 99–102
to Lady Morley 102–3
as writer: first compositions: ‘juvenile effusions’ 39–42, 186
habits of composition 81–2, 138, 173
views on her own talents 94–6
‘three or four families in a country village’ 76
‘I could no more write a romance than an epic poem’ 96
‘desire to create, not to reproduce’ 118
‘the little bit … of ivory on which I work’ 123
authorship, a secret 140, 149–50
on her characters’ later lives 119 and note
manuscripts dispersed 184
‘she always said her books were her children’ 191
19 th-c. admirers 110–15
novels: Emma: dedication to Prince Regent 92 and note, 100, 176
‘Opinions’ on 114 and note
reviewed in Quarterly Review 101 and note, 107–8, 118
views on 119
Anna Lefroy as Emma 119n.
Mansfield Park: ‘nothing of herself in Fanny Price’ 28–9
at work on 81, 85n
approved by Henry Austen 88–9
revised for second edn. 101
‘Opinions’ on 106 and note, 114
Northanger Abbey (‘Susan’, ‘Catherine’) 35, 44, 82, 117 and note
traces of early burlesque in 43
negotiations to publish 105–6 and note, 185
posthumous appearance 82
Persuasion 124
cancelled chapter 125 and note
posthumous appearance 82
‘the most beautiful of her works’ (Whewell) 112
‘Anne Elliott [sic] was herself’ 197
Pride and Prejudice (‘First Impressions’): first completed novel 43
early attempt to publish 105 and note
revised at Chawton 81
its price 83
JA’s views on 83–4
her personal affection for Darcy and Elizabeth 83–4, 118
Fanny Knight on 84
Walter Scott on 107, 113, 118
Sense and Sensibility (‘Elinor and Marianne’): its early history 43–4, 185
revised at Chawton 81
profits on 106 and note, 140
Elinor and Marianne believed to be portraits of JA and Cassandra 19
other writings: ‘the betweenities’, and family views on publishing 42–3 and note, 186
‘Catherine or The Bower’ 186
‘Evelyn’ 186
‘The History of England’ 44n., 71n.
Lady Susan 3, 43n., 191
in Fanny Knight, Lady Knatchbull’s possession 186
‘Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend’ 75, 185
‘The Mystery’ 40–2
‘Plan of a Novel’ 97–9 and notes
Sanditon (‘The Last Work’): ‘the manuscript on which she was engaged’ 127
family views on publishing it 184
Anna Lefroy attempts to complete it 261 headnote
précis published 3
‘To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy’ 49–50
‘When Winchester Races’ (JA’s deathbed verses) 130 and note, 138, 190–1
The Watsons (so titled by JEAL) 3, 59 and note
Austen, Mary, see Mary Lloyd
Austen, Mary Jane (1807–1836;
daughter of Frank Austen and JA’s niece) 121–2 and note, 174
Austen, Philadelphia, see Hancock, Philadelphia
Austen-Leigh, Revd James Edward (1798–1874 JA’s nephew) ill. lxiv
his biography i
JA on his character 126
early memories of JA 10, 65–6, 70
JA’s letters to 120–2, 122–4, 129–30
at JA’s funeral 9, 187
literary activities: writing a novel 123 and note, 142, 150
Recollections of… the Vine Hunt 21 and note
Memoir of JA: major changes between first and second edns. xlix–l
edits JA’s manuscript writings for second edition of Memoir 3
motive for writing 10, 132–3
help from sisters and cousin 10, and passim; ‘extreme scantiness of ... materials’ 132
undertakes researches for 189–90
Baillie, Joanna 90
Baillie, Dr Matthew, Prince Regent’s physician 92n., 176
Barrett, Mrs Ann 118 and note, 195–7 and note
Barrett, Eaton Stannard, The Heroine 88, 89
Bath, JA living in 58–65
Beattie, James, The Minstrel 93
Bentley, Richard, publisher 258 headnote
Bigg, Alethea 126–7, 128, 179
Bigg, Catherine (later wife of Revda H
erbert Hill) 110
Bigg, Elizabeth (later Mrs William Heathcote) 128, 129, 179
Bigg-Wither, Harris, brother of Alethea, etc.: proposes to JA 29n., 187–8, 191
Blackall, Revd Dr Samuel 191–2
Brontë, Charlotte, compared to JA 91, 96–7
on JA’s novels 97
Brunton, Mary, Self-Control 75 n., 106 and note
Brydges, Sir Egerton, recollections of JA 44 and note
Brydges, Mary (Poll; JA’s great-grandmother) 44 and note, 184
Burney, Frances (Fanny) 20, 104, 154; Evelina and Camilla 20, 105
and Samuel Johnson 90
JA’s prose style preferred to Burney’s ‘grandiloquent’ style 71
Cadell, Thomas, publisher: refuses the manuscript of a novel by JA 105 and note
Carlton House, London 92
Carr, Sir John, Travels in Spain 85
Chandos, Lady Eliza, author of a ‘very old letter’ 44, 47
Chawton, Hants, JA’s home 67–8, 166–8
‘with Chawton … that her name as an Author, must be identified’ 166
Cholmeley, Jane, see Leigh Perrot, Jane
Chute, William John, MP for Hants 51
Clarke, Revd James Stanier 92, 176–7, 192
letters to JA, containing hints for a novel 93–4, 95
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, opinion of JA’s novels 110
Cooke, Revd George Leigh (JA’s cousin) 63–5 and note, 160
Cooper, Revd Dr Edward (JA’s uncle) 26
Cooper Revd Edward (JA’s cousin) 26–7 and note
Cooper, Jane Leigh (JA’s aunt) 26
Cooper, Jane (JA’s cousin) 26–7 and note
Cowper, William, one of JA’s favourite poets 71
his house a tourist attraction 69, 166
Crabbe, George 90
one of JA’s favourite
poets 71, 172
‘being Mrs Crabbe’ 71
Craven, Charlotte 87, 191
Crosby and Co., NA sold to in 1803: 105 and note
D’Arblay, Madame, see Burney, Frances
David, Mrs, Winchester landlady 128n., 129
Deane rectory 11, 13, 158
Digweed, Mr and Mrs William 24 and note, 84n., 120, 121, 194