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3 giorni fa · Jane Austen enthusiasts are being asked to help transcribe a handwritten manuscript biography of her brother Francis. The unpublished text details the life, travels and naval career of Admiral Sir ...
2 giorni fa · Cassandra was a jealous guardian of her sister’s private life, and after Jane’s death she censored the surviving letters, destroying many and cutting up others. But Jane Austen’s own novels provide indisputable evidence that their author understood the experience of love and of love disappointed.
- What did Jane Austen accomplish?English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote about unremarkable people in unremarkable situations of everyday life, and yet she shaped such mater...
- What was Jane Austen’s family like?Jane Austen was the seventh of eight children. Her closest companion throughout her life was her elder sister, Cassandra. Their father was a schola...
- What did Jane Austen write?Jane Austen is known for six novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Persuasion a...
1 giorno fa · Francis Austen was a high-ranking officer in the Royal Navy who lived to be 91. Affectionately called Frank by his family and Fly by his siblings, he took in his sisters Jane and Cassandra and ...
3 giorni fa · Anybody interested in helping should email the museum direct at office@janeaustens.house to request a page to transcribe. The museum will then send a high resolution image and full instructions on how to make a transcription. Once complete, the full memoir will be published online and freely available. The memoir consists of 78 pages of ...
4 giorni fa · Bram Stoker sent intense fan letters to Walt Whitman 21 years before the younger writer published Dracula — “I would be towards you as a brother and as a pupil to his master.”. JD Salinger ...
2 giorni fa · In particular, Francis Austen's accounts of his time in the Royal Navy are thought to have influenced the nautical elements in his sister's writing. Alongside the memoir, the museum has also acquired an album containing 73 watercolors and drawings created by Francis Austen and his daughter, Cassandra Eliza Austen.
1 giorno fa · Jane Austen's house - Jane Austen’s House Museum Francis Austen was a high-ranking officer in the Royal Navy who lived to be 91. Affectionately called Frank by his family and Fly by his siblings, he took in his sisters Jane and Cassandra and mother at his home in Southampton after the death of his father.
