and Henry, [>]–[>]; see also Austen, Eliza
and Jane, [>]–[>], [>]
Feuillide, Hastings de, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Feuillide, Count Jean-François Capot de, [>], [>]
Fielding, Henry, [>]–[>], [>]
Tom Jones, [>], [>]
First Impressions (Austen), [>], [>] see also Pride and Prejudice
Fonthill Abbey, [>]
Fowle, Tom, [>], [>]–[>]
Fowle brothers, [>], [>], [>], [>]
France, at war with Britain, [>]–[>]
French Revolution, [>], [>]
Garson, Greer, [>]
George I, king of England, [>]
George II, king of England, [>]
George III, king of England, [>], [>]
George IV, king of England, [>], [>]
as Prince Regent, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
Georgian period, [>]–[>], [>]
Godmersham Park, Kent, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Gordon, Lady, [>]–[>]
Grahame-Smith, Seth, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, [>]–[>]
Great Britain:
colonies of, [>]
education in, [>], [>]–[>]
Georgian period in, [>]–[>], [>]
plays staged in, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
printing in, [>]
royal family of, [>]–[>]
rules of inheritance in, [>]
smallpox in, [>]–[>]
social classes in, [>]–[>], [>]
at war with France, [>]–[>]
at war with U.S., [>]
in World War I and II, [>]–[>]
Hancock, Eliza:
birth of, [>]
in France, [>]–[>]
marriage of, [>]; see also Feuillide, Eliza Hancock de
Hancock, Philadelphia Austen, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Hancock, Tysoe, [>]
Handel, George Frideric, Messiah, [>]
Hastings, Warren, [>]
Hathaway, Anne, [>]
Henry VIII, king of England, [>]
Heywood, Charlotte (fict.), [>], [>]
Hinds, Ciarán, [>]
“History of England, The” (Austen), 29, 29
India, British colony in, [>]
Jack and Alice (Austen), [>]
James, Henry, [>]
Jane Austen Society of Australia, [>]
Jane Austen Society of North America, [>]
Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom, [>]
Janites (Janeites), [>]
Kipling, Rudyard, “The Janeites,” [>]
Knight, Catherine, [>], [>]
Knight, Edward, 62
and Austen family matters, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
early years of, see Austen, Edward
at Godmersham Park, [>]
and Jane’s death, [>]
Knight, Fanny, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Knight, Thomas, [>], [>]
Knight, William, [>]
Knightley, Keira, [>]
Lady Susan (Austen), [>]
Landsdowne, Marquis of, [>], [>]
La Tournelle, Madame, [>]
Lefroy, Anne , [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Lefroy, Rev. George, [>]
Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Leigh family, family tree, [>]
Leigh-Perrot, James, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Leigh-Perrot, Mrs., [>]–[>]
Lloyd , Martha , [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Lloyd, Mary, [>]–[>] see also Austen, Mary Lloyd
Loiterer, The (James and Henry Austen), [>]
London, England, [>]
Louis XVI, king of France, [>]
Lyme, England, [>], [>]
Macfadyen, Matthew, [>]
Mansfield Park, 34, [>], [>]–[>], 111
comparisons with, [>]
film of, [>]
plot of, [>]–[>], [>]
publication of, [>], [>]
public reactions to, [>]–[>], [>]
quotation from, [>]
rights of, [>]
sales of, [>], [>]
Marie Antoinette, queen of France, [>], [>]
Martineau, Harriet, [>]
Matilda (drama), [>]–[>]
Maugham, W Somerset, [>]
McCabe, Richard, [>]
Mitford, Mary Russell, [>], [>]
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, [>]
Morland, Catherine (fict.), [>]–[>]
Murray, John, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Nineteenth century:
bathing machines, [>]–[>], [>]
letters written in, 56
literature of, [>], [>]
medical treatment in, [>], [>]
travel dangers in, [>]
Norman, Andrew, Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love, [>]
Northam, Jeremy, [>]
Northanger Abbey (Austen), [>]–[>], [>], [>] see also Catherine
novels:
epistolary, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
written by women, [>]–[>] see also specific authors and titles
O’Connor, Frances, [>]
Oliver, Edna May, [>]
Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. (fict.), [>], [>]
Paltrow, Gwyneth, [>]
Perseverance (frigate), [>]
Persuasion (Austen), [>], [>], [>], [>]–150, [>], 149, [>] see also Elliots, The
Pinter, Harold, [>]
Price, Fanny (fict.), [>]–[>], [>], 111, [>]
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), [>], [>]–[>], [>],[>]
comparisons with, [>], [>], [>]
films of, [>], [>],[>]
plot of, [>], [>]–[>]
publication of, [>]
public reactions to, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
quotations from, [>], [>]
Radcliffe, Ann, [>]
Richardson, Samuel, Sir Charles Grandison, [>]
Root, Amanda, [>]
St. Swithin’s Day, [>]; Jane’s poem about, [>]–[>]
Sanditon (Austen), [>]–[>], [>], [>] see also Brothers, The
Scott, Sir Walter, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Sense and Sensibility (Austen), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
comparisons with, [>], [>]
plot of, [>]–[>], [>]
printing, [>]–[>]
public reaction to, [>]–[>], [>]
rights to, [>]
sales of, [>]
Sharp, Anne, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
silhouettes, [>], [>], 34, [>]
Silverstone, Alicia, [>]
Smith, Charlotte Turner, Celestina, [>]
Southampton, Austens’ move to, [>]–[>]
Steele, Nancy and Lucy (fict.), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Steventon, England, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Susan (also Catherine) (Austen), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>] see also Northanger Abbey
Swift, Jonathan, [>]–[>]
Telscombe, Anne, [>]
Thompson, Emma, [>]
Trollope, Anthony, [>]–[>]
Twain, Mark, [>]
Walter, Philadelphia, [>], [>], [>]
War of 1812, [>]
Watsons, The (Austen), [>], [>]
Wentworth, Frederick (fict.), [>]–[>], [>], 149
White, Sir Thomas, [>]
Williams, Thomas, [>]
William the Conqueror, [>]
Winchester Cathedral, [>], [>]
Winslet, Kate, [>]
Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, [>]
women:
authors, [>]–[>]
dresses of, 9, [>], 75
education of, [>]–[>]
fainting, [>], [>]
and financial matters, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
and gothic novels, [>]
governesses, [>]
and marriage, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
pattens worn by, [>], [>]
rights of, [>]
and social manners, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Woodhouse, Emma (fict.), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
World War [>], [>]
World War II, [>]–[>]
About the Author
CATHERINE REEF is the author of more than forty nonfiction books for young people and adults, many of them award winners. Her previous Clarion biographies of writers include the highly acclaimed Ernest Hemingway: A Writer’s Life and E. E. Cummings: A Poet’s Life. She lives in College Park, Maryland.
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