Austen, Jane

A British author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; her best-known works are the novels Pride and Prejudiceand Emma . Austen is particularly famous for her witty irony and perceptive comments about people and their social relationships.

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George Austen, Jane’s father, looms large in the exhibition.

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The ring passed first to the author's sister Cassandra, who then gave it to her sister-in-law Eleanor Austen on her engagement to the Reverend Henry Thomas Austen, Jane and Cassandra's brother.

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The book will sit along side the works of Aristotle, Austen Jane and Aristophanes, published under the same imprint.

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The ring first passed from Austen to her sister, Cassandra, who later gave it to her future sister-in-law Eleanor Jackson after Eleanor’s engagement to Henry Thomas Austen, Jane and Cassandra’s brother.

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Austen, Jane, her life and personality, 265-267; opinions of Walter Scott, Macaulay, and Miss Mitford concerning, 266, 267; her Pride and Prejudice, 268; Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, 268, 269; her qualities, 270, 271; burial-place, 270.

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