Memoir of Jane Austen
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Edgeworth, Maria 104, 154 JA’s admiration of her novels 72
Egerton, Thomas, publisher of S&S, P&P, and MP 82 and note
Ferrier, Susan, novelist 111
Feuillide, Eliza de (1761–1813
née Hancock, JA’s cousin)
character 28 and note
first marriage, flight from France, marriage to Henry Austen 27
and theatricals 28
and note
and JA: dedicatee 27n.
JA’s French learnt from 28
Feuillide, Jean François Capot de, first husband of Eliza Hancock 27 and note
fostering out 39 and note
Fowle, Revd Fulwar William, recollections of JA 193–4 and note
Fowle, Revd Tom, fiancé of Cassandra Austen 28 and note
Fowles of Kintbury 178
France, war with 88 and note
Gay, John, Trivia 36
Gaskell, Elizabeth: as novelist 37
as biographer of Charlotte Brontë 91, 97
Gilpin, Revd William, on picturesque, a favourite writer of JA’s 140
Goldsmith, Oliver, as historian and novelist 71, 93
Grant, Mrs Anne, Letters from the Mountains 85
Guizot, M., French politician and writer, opinion on JA’s novels 111
Hancock, Philadelphia (1730–92 JA’s aunt) 13 and note
Harwood family, of Deane 52 and note
Hastings, George (son of Warren H.) 13, 189 and note
Hastings, Warren 13 and note
Hawkins, Laetitia Matilda, novelist 106–7
Heathcote, William (husband of Elizabeth Bigg) 53, 55
Henry, Robert, History of England 55
Heroine, The 88 and note, 89
Hill, Revd Herbert (husband of Catherine Bigg and uncle of Robert Southey) 110
Holland, Henry Fox 3rd Lord 112
Holland, Sir Henry 112
Hubback, Catherine Anne (1818–77
Frank Austen’s daughter) 191 and note
opinion on possible JA romances 191–2
Hume, David, as historian 71
Hunter, Mrs Rachel, novelist 159–60
Ibthorp 54 and note
Jewsbury, Maria, opinion on JA’s novels 151–3
‘a thorough mistress in the knowledge of human character’ 152
Johnson, Samuel, one of JA’s favourite authors 71, 141
Kean, Edmund, actor 89
Knatchbull, Lady, see Knight, Fanny Catherine
Knight, Edward (1767–1852
JA’s brother): his character 16, 69
adoption by Thomas Knight 16
offers his mother Chawton Cottage 67 and note, 166–7
Knight, Fanny Catherine, later Lady
Knatchbull (1793–1882; JA’s niece): closeness to JA 158–9, 260 headnote
praise for P & 84
inherits JA manuscripts and letters 43n., 50n., 186
later opinion of JA quoted xxiv
Knight, Thomas II, patron of Austens, and adoptive father of JA’s brother Edward 26 and note
La Fontaine, August 93
Lansdowne, 2nd Marquis of 66
Lansdowne, 3rd Marquis of 113 Latournelle, Mrs, of school in Reading 18 and note, 28
Lefroy, Anna Jemima (b. 1815, daughter of Anna Lefroy), 119 and note, 185
Lefroy, Anne (née Brydges; ‘Madam Lefroy’) 44 and note
character and accomplishments 48
JA’s verses on 49–50
and JA’s romance with Tom Lefroy 186
Lefroy, Ben (son of Anne Lefroy, husband of Anna Austen) 77 and note, 123
news of JA’s death 197
Lefroy, Fanny Caroline (1820–85; Anna Lefroy’s daughter), ‘Family History’ 76n., 197–8 and note
Lefroy, Jane Anna Elizabeth (1793–1872; ‘Anna’, JA’s niece) ill. 156, 161
biography 261 headnote
early life and character 75n., 157–8
literary activities: novel, criticized by JA 76–7 and note
‘Car of Falkenstein’ and ridiculing popular novels 159–60, 172
begins a family history 32n.
novel destroyed 76n.
tries to continue Sanditon 76 n., 261;
‘Recollections of Aunt Jane’ (1864) 155–62, 259–61
helps JEAL with the Memoir 10, 73, 157, 162, 183, 184
and JA: on JA 158, 183
on JA and children 73, 158
on JA and Godmersham 158
companionship with JA 73, 159, 179
letters from JA 72, 74, 76–7, 106–7, 119
on JA’s closeness to Cassandra 160, 260
on JA and Fanny Knight 158–9, 260
JA’s verses on 75 and note
as Emma 119n.
on destruction of JA’s correspondence 184
not remembering hearing early version of P&P 158
early anecdotes of JA 160 inherits JA memorabilia 125n.
on Sanditon and the dispersal of JA’s manuscripts 184
‘the original of Poll’s letters’ 184
Lefroy, T. E. P. (husband of Anna Jemima Lefroy) 48n.;
purchases Revd George Austen’s letter to Cadell 185
Lefroy, Thomas Langlois (1776–1869): and romance with JA 48 and note, 186
still living when Memoir in preparation 186 and note
Leigh, Dr Theophilus, Master of Balliol and JA’s great-uncle 11–13, 12n., 59
Leigh, Revd Thomas, JA’s maternal grandfather 11
Leigh Perrot, James (1735–1817; JA’s uncle): author of epigrams 37, 59
at Bath 58–9 and note
surety for Henry Austen 37n.
his death and will 120n., 178
Leigh Perrot, Jane (née Cholmeley JA’s aunt) 59 and note, 178
shoplifting charge 59n.
and JEAL i, 58n., 120n.
Le Marchant, Sir Denis (JEAL’s brother-in-law): collects opinions on JA’s novels 112–13
Leven, Lord and Lady 64–5
Lloyd, Martha (1765–1843; second wife of Francis Austen): friend of JA 53 and note, 62
JA’s letter to 53–5
joins the Austen household 63n., 67, 166
Lloyd, Mary (1771–1843
second wife of James Austen and mother of JEAL and Caroline): JA’s gift to 79 and note
illness 120–1
JA on her shortcomings 131n.
nurses JA in her final illness 130, 179–82, 187, 198
JA’s last words to 131 and note, 182
Lloyd, Mrs 62 and note
Loiterer, The 16 and note
London, JA visits 86–9, 91–3, 99–101, 149–50
Lyford, Mr, surgeon of Winchester 128 and note, 179, 182
Lyme Regis 59–61, 63 and note
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, opinion of JA’s novels 104
intention of writing a memoir of her 112
Mackintosh, Sir James, opinion of JA’s novels 110–11
Manydown Park, Hants 54 and note
Mitford, Mary Russell 13 and note, 91
on JA 133–4 and note
admiration for JA’s novels 110
her writings compared to JA’s 118
More, Hannah, Cœlebs 153
Morley, Countess of (Frances Parker, Viscountess Boringdon), correspondence with JA 102–3
Morpeth, Lord (7th Earl of Carlisle), poem on JA’s novels 111–12
Murray, John, publisher of E, NA, and P 82 and note
correspondence and relations with JA 99–102
Northleigh, Oxon, estate of James Leigh Perrot 58
Oxford: Balliol College 11–12, 59 St John’s College 11, 16
Papillon, Revd John R, rector of Chawton 126
Pasley, Captain, Essay on … Military Policy 85
Perigord, Mrs 89
Perrot family 58
Prince Regent, admires JA’s novels 92, 176–7
JA dedicates E to 92 and note, 100, 176
Quarterly Review 101, 107 and note
Quinc
y, Eliza Susan, American autograph hunter 53n., 114–15
Rejected Addresses 84 and note
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 90, 118
Richardson, Samuel 71
Sir Charles Grandison 33, 71, 141
Robertson, William, historian 71
Rosanne, a novel 106 and note
Ross, Sir William 95
Russell, Dr, rector of Ashe 13, 134
Saxe Cobourg, House of, subject for a romance 95
Schooling 18, 28
Scott, Walter, his poetry 71–2
The Field of Waterloo 100
Marmion parodied 83 and note
Waverley 72
The Antiquary 123
Paul’s Letters to His Kinsfolk 100
compared to JA 100, 113
review of E in Quarterly 101 and note, 107–8, 118
his opinion on JA’s novels 113
‘has no business to write novels’ 72
‘a critique on Walter Scott’ 84
Self Control, a novel 75n., 106 and note
Seward, Anna 90
Shakespeare, JA compared to 104, 108–9, 118
Smith, Sydney 113
Southampton, Austens living at 65–7
Southey, Robert, his admiration for JA 110
Poet’s Pilgrimage 127
Spectator, The 33, 71
Staël, Anne Louise Germaine, Mme de, ‘found no interest in’ one of JA’s books 111
JA does not meet 150 and note
Stent, Mrs 55, 63
Steventon 21–6
rectory ill.22
JA’s early years in 21–7, 32n., 36–7, 39, 157
its appearance 23
the Austens leave 50, 58, 185
JEAL attempts to trace its remains 189–90
Theatricals, amateur 28 and note
Thrale, Mrs Hester Piozzi 12, 90
Tilson, Frances 120n.
Trafalgar, Battle of 56 and note
Vine Hunt, JEAL publishes Recollections of 21 and note
West, Mrs, novelist 72n.
Weymouth 59–60
Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, review of JA’s novels 28
and note, 108–9
‘evidently a Christian writer’ 153
Whewell, William, admiration for JA’s novels 112–13
Williams, Captain Thomas 27
Winchester: Edward Austen Knight’s sons at school at 122
JA on schoolboys 121
JA’s last days 128–9
races, JA’s verses on 138, 190–1
visitors to JA’s grave 91
a wish to erect a monument to her there 112
1 Times Literary Supplement, 17 Mar. 1927, p. 177.
2 e.g. those letters printed as nos. 111, 118, and 131, in Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye (3rd edn., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). For the verses to Anna Austen, see p. 75 of the Memoir and note.
3 An exception must be made for D. W. Harding’s edition, issued as an appendix to Persuasion (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965).
4 As stated by David Gilson in his introduction to the facsimile reprint of the 1870, first edition of the Memoir (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1994), p. xiii.
5 Memoir, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926), p. viii. The advertisement for the Steventon Edition of the novels, printed in the second volume of Letters of Jane Austen, ed. Edward, Lord Brabourne (2 vols., London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1884), attaches the notice of the Memoir in brackets after Lady Susan, The Watsons, & c.
6 Terry Castle, ‘Sister-Sister’, London Review of Books, 3 Aug. 1995, p. 3.
7 The George Eliot Letters, ed. Gordon S. Haight (9 vols., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954–78), vi. 23, Eliot to Blackwood, 20 Feb.1874.
8 John Wiltshire, Recreating Jane Austen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 17.
9 Emma, vol. 3, ch. 13; and Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984), 38.
10 Mrs Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Alan Shelston (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975), 443. For a recent, metabiographical examination of the treatment of Charlotte and Emily Brontë by their biographers, see Lucasta Miller, The Brontë Myth (London: Jonathan Cape, 2001).
11 Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, vol. 2, 1870–1938, ed. B. C. Southam (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987), 12. Southam prints extracts from the pioneering, pre-1870 appraisals by Kavanagh, Lewes, and Macaulay in Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, vol. 1, 1811–70 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968). See, too, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, ed. George Otto Trevelyan (2 vols., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876), ii. 466.
12 NPG, RWC/HH, fo. 23, National Portrait Gallery, London, a file of correspondence between R. W. Chapman and Henry Hake, containing typescripts made from ‘letters addressed to James Edward Austen-Leigh about the date of the composition & publication of the Memoir and preserved by him in an album’.
13 NPG, RWC/HH, fo. 25.
14 Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. Le Faye, 144.
15 Fanny Knight’s Diaries: Jane Austen through her Niece’s Eyes, ed. Deirdre Le Faye (Alton: Jane Austen Society, 2000), 38–9.
16 Letters of Jane Austen, ed. Brabourne, vol. i. pp. xi-xiii and 6.
17 HRO, MS 23M93/86/3c-u8(ii), Hampshire Record Office, the Austen-Leigh Papers.
18 They are nos. 49–67 in Jane Austen’s Letters, ed. Le Faye.
19 David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life (London: Fourth Estate, 1997), 169–71.
20 David Gilson, Introduction to Sir F. D. MacKinnon, Grand Larceny, Being the Trial of Jane Leigh Perrot, Aunt of Jane Austen (1937); repr. in Jane Austen: Family History (5 vols., London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1995), volumes are unnumbered.
21 See p. 48 in this edition and my note for further details.
22 [M. O. W. Oliphant], ‘Miss Austen and Miss Mitford’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 107 (1870), 290–1, 300, 304.
23 M. O. W. Oliphant, ‘The Ethics of Biography’, Contemporary Review, 44 (1883), 84.
24 Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen: A Life (London: Viking, 1997), 6–7 and 211. Castle, ‘Sister-Sister’, p. 3. See also Claire Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (1974; Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977), 14 ff.
25 William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters. A Family Record (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1913), 155–6.
26 Sense and Sensibility, vol. 1, ch. 1.
27 R. W. Chapman, Jane Austen: Facts and Problems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948; repr. 1949), 47.
28 Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life, 220–3 and 350–2, pores over the episode, using it to jump off in a quite different direction, to the robust (but unprovable) conclusion that after fainting or not fainting Jane went off to Bath to have fun and it is because she was too busy enjoying herself there that there is now a perceptible gap in the biographical record.
29 Austen Papers 1704–1856, ed. Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh (London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne, and Co., i942), i48.
30 Constance Hill, Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends (1902; London: John Lane, i904), 48.
31 On the ‘pseudo-gentry’, see David Spring, ‘Interpreters of Jane Austen’s Social World: Literary Criticism and Historians’, in Janet Todd (ed.), Jane Austen: New Perspectives (New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc., 1983), 61–3.
32 Mary Augusta Austen-Leigh, James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir (privately published, 1911), 263–4.
33 Id., Personal Aspects of Jane Austen (London: John Murray, 1920), 4–5.
34 D. W. Harding, ‘Regulated Hatred: An Aspect of the Work of Jane Austen’, Scrutiny, 8 (Mar. 1940).
35 NPG, RWC/HH, from typescript of a letter from Anna to James Edward, ‘July 20’ [1869], unfoliated; NPG, RWC/HH, fo. 15, typescript of part of a letter from Cassy E. Austen to JEAL, 18 December 1869; and Appendix, p. 192.
1 From a letter of 28 Nov. 1870, included in M. A. DeWolfe Howe, ‘A Jane Austen Letter Wit
h Other “janeana” From an Old Book of Autographs’, Yale Review, 15 (1925–6), 333.
1 I went to represent my father, who was too unwell to attend himself, and thus I was the only one of my generation present. [JEAL’s father was JA’s eldest brother James, who although at his sister’s bedside the day before she died was too ill to attend the funeral. He died on 13 December 1819.]
1 My chief assistants have been my sisters, Mrs. B. Lefroy and Miss Austen, whose recollections of our aunt are, on some points, more vivid than my own. I have not only been indebted to their memory for facts, but have sometimes used their words. Indeed some passages towards the end of the work were entirely written by the latter.
I have also to thank some of my cousins, and especially the daughters of Admiral Charles Austen, for the use of letters and papers which had passed into their hands, without which this Memoir, scanty as it is, could not have been written.
[For the evolution of the Memoir and the assistance provided by JEAL’s sisters and cousins, see Introduction.]
1 There seems to have been some doubt as to the validity of this election; for Hearne says that it was referred to the Visitor, who confirmed it. (Hearne’s Diaries, v. 2.) [The incident is recorded in Reliquiae Hernianae, The Remains of Thomas Hearne, MA (2nd edn., 3 vols., 1869), ii. 308–9.]
1 Mrs. Thrale writes Dr. Lee, but there can be no doubt of the identity of person.