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Edward Austen Knight (born Edward Austen; 7 October 1767 – 19 November 1852) was the third eldest brother of Jane Austen, and provided their mother with the use of a cottage in Chawton where Jane lived for the last years of her life (now Jane Austen's House Museum). He was also High Sheriff of Kent in 1801.
Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough , with connections to ...
Chawton House in snow. Chawton House is a Grade II* listed manor house in Hampshire on the South side of Chawton village, and the present building was started in 1580.. In the late 18th century it was the home of Edward Austen Knight a wealthy brother of the novelist Jane Austen. [1]
Fanny Knight was the daughter of Edward Austen Knight, Jane Austen's brother, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Bridges. Edward had been adopted by the wealthy but childless Knight family, and inherited their property of Godmersham Park. Fanny was the eldest of Edward and Elizabeth's eleven children.
“Her life’s work became supporting Jane and enabling Jane,” Walsh explains. When the Austen sisters later moved into a small cottage in the grounds of their wealthy brother Edward’s estate ...
Jane Austen's immediate family was large and close-knit. She had six brothers—James, George, Charles, Francis, Henry, and Edward—and a beloved older sister, Cassandra. [3] Austen's brother Edward was made the heir of Thomas and Elizabeth Knight <family record> and eventually inherited their estates at Godmersham, Kent, and Chawton ...
Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ ... Around early 1809, Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life—the use of a large ...
Edward Ferrars is a fictional character in Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility. He is the elder of Fanny Dashwood's two brothers and forms an attachment to Elinor Dashwood. As first described in Sense and Sensibility: "Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not ...