Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Cassandra Austen
Standard Name: Austen, Cassandra
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Jane Austen | JA
, her sister
, and her cousin Jane Cooper began on what became about six months away from home for the sake of schooling. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 2 Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 30-1 |
| Education | Jane Austen | JA
and her sister
attended the Abbey School
at Reading. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 2 Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 31-3 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Hubback | Once she became a writer herself, CH
drew some capital from her relationship to her famous aunt, Jane Austen
, who died the year before she was born. Tradition later said that as a little... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Austen | The Rev. Tom Fowle, fiancé of JA
's sister, Cassandra
, died of fever at Santo Domingo in the Caribbean. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 4 Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 18-9, 124 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Jane Austen | JA
's most important relationship was with her sister, Cassandra
, who after Jane's death called her the sun of my life. qtd. in Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 402 |
| Health | Jane Austen | At school in Southampton, JA
and her sister
and cousin fell seriously ill with typhus and were brought home. Le Faye, Deirdre. A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 93 Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 31 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Kennedy | Kennedy once again found her inspiration for this novel in the model of Jane Austen
. For Troy Chimneys, she extracted parts of the letters which Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra
. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 187 |
| Leisure and Society | Jane Austen | Generations of JA
readers lacked any image of her except silhouettes which give little away, a back view, and an unsatisfactory, unfinished sketch by her sister Cassandra
. From this, various new versions have been... |
| Performance of text | Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis | Genlis' daughters gave performances of these plays to large audiences (up to five hundred people). Dow, Gillian. “Books owned by Jane Austen’s niece, Caroline, donated to Chawton House Library”. The Female Spectator, Vol. 1 n.s. , No. 4, 2015, pp. 1-3. 2 |
| Publishing | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
wrote later, It was a matter of course to me that I was to write, and also a matter of instinct. My head was always busy in inventions, and it was a delight to... |
| Residence | Jane Austen | Following her father
's retirement on health grounds, JA
moved with her parents
and sister
from Steventon in Hampshire to 4 Sydney Place, Bath. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 6 |
| Residence | Jane Austen | JA
, with her mother
, her sister
, and their friend Martha Lloyd
, moved from Southampton to the security of Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 8 |
| Residence | Jane Austen | JA
's sister, Cassandra
, moved with her from Chawton to 8 College Street, Winchester, for the sake of a Hospital & capital Surgeons. qtd. in Le Faye, Deirdre. “Chronology of Jane Austen’s Life”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. 1-11. 11 Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. 395 |
| Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | The younger sister is Emma Watson, who has been educated away from home, and who on returning to her impoverished family finds herself out of sympathy with her elder sisters' quest to attract husbands. As... |
| Textual Production | Jane Austen | John Murray
was apparently planning a collected edition of JA
's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen
wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year... |
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