Eliza Hancock de Feuillide

Jean-François Capotte, comte de Feuillide, husband of JA 's loved and admired older cousin Eliza de Feuillide , was guillotined in Paris.

The fourth Austen brother, Henry Thomas (to whom Jane was particularly close), became a banker, but after his bank failed in 1816 he was, like his eldest brother, ordained as a clergyman. He married as...

The Critical Review gave it a mixed and fairly unenthusiastic notice: it thought the play offered less pleasure to a reader than to an audience.Jane Austen 's cousin Eliza de Feuillide

Some Austen news items are regrettable. In an interview with the Royal Geographical Society in June 2011, V.S. Naipaul , in asserting his own superiority to women writers (and claiming he could tell male from...

MS (as Miss Stockdale) issued through her father 's firmThe Family Book; or, Children's Journal, translated from the French of Arnaud Berquin , Interspers'd with Poetical Pieces written by the Translator...

This epistolary novella would thus be associated with a visit to the Austen family of the recently widowed Eliza de Feuillide (JA 's cousin, and later her sister-in-law). Eliza was nothing like the scheming...