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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 November 2014
    10 July 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107707283
    9781108076210
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107707283
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    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.35kg, 272 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Population History, English Literature: General Interest, History, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Social and Population History, English Literature: General Interest, History, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Chawton House is famous today as the home of Jane Austen's brother Edward, who was adopted by a wealthy relative, Thomas Knight, and inherited his Hampshire estate. Edward offered the former bailiff's cottage close to the great house to his mother, who lived there with her unmarried daughters Jane and Cassandra. The house is now a study centre and library, for women's writing especially, but when this book was published in 1911 the building was still the Knight family home. Montagu Knight, the grandson of Edward, supplied material from the archives of the manor, while the book was largely written by his cousin William Austen Leigh, the son of Jane's nephew and memorialist. It covers the history of the manor from the Norman Conquest to the death of the second Edward in 1879, and, apart from the Austen connection, is a fascinating illustrated history of a typical English parish.

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