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	Jane "Persuasion" Austen
		She was the seventh child and second daughter of the Rev. George Austen and Cassandra Leigh-Austen.
		Jane Austen was born 16 December 1775 at Steventon Parish, Hampshire, England.
		Austen, however, couldn't really afford their schooling and the girls were back home after less than three years.
	incompetech.com /authors/austen

	Janeites - the discussion list
		Illustrations include, Jane Austen's birth, childhood scenes, a family wedding, the Austen family, a new portrait inspired by Cassandra's sketch, love and dancing with Tom Lefroy, balls, shopping and social gatherings in Bath and Jane with her mysterious Sidmouth beau.
		"Effusions of Fancy" is a new Jane Austen book with a difference, a mixture of letters and watercolour pictures depicting Jane's life through Cassandra's eyes.
		It is a light hearted portrayal of a youthful Jane Austen, and perhaps a good likeness of the vibrant, charming, smart woman that she was.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/janeites.html

	Jane Austen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jane Austen was born at the rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, in 1775, daughter to the Rev. George Austen (1731–1805) and his wife Cassandra (née Leigh) (1739–1827).
		Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra (click on image for more info).
		Austen's literary strength lies in the delineation of character, especially of women, by delicate touches arising out of the most natural and everyday incidents in the life of the middle and upper classes, from which her subjects are generally taken.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Austen (1489 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jane Austen: A Life: Books
		Gracing (or disfiguring) the cover is the only known pictorial representation of Jane Austen, an unfinished sketch done by her sister Cassandra, a sketch that was not discovered until long after Jane and Cassandra had died and which a niece said was "hideously unlike" her aunt.
		The Austen genealogy is probed, every known neighbour, witness, and every witness's evidence is weighed and balanced, Jane Austen's writings are examined and assessed, and the situations of her brothers' living descendants are sometimes mentioned.
		The novels of Jane Austen depict a world of civility, reassuring stability and continuity, which generations of readers have supposed was the world she herself inhabited.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140296905 (1179 words)

	RKMBs v8.0: Rob's Damn Boards: Carter's Imaginary Friend: X-Men
		But I don't see Chuck Austen as a strong enough writer to say "I'll play in Grant's toybox and bring back a character who came so close to actually destroying the XMen." Cassandra Nova is one of those characters that should be left alone and only used sparingly (and not by an out-going Chuck Austen).
		Cassandra almost destroyed the XMen and then, as an encore, brought the Shiar Empire onto their heads.
		And, while YOU never said the "friend" was a bad guy, the look on his face in the final panels of that issue would suggest that Carter's "friend" isn't exactly Barney the Purple Dinosaur.
	www.robkamphausen.com /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=398908&page= (1222 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Jane Austen: A Biography
		Austen found a wet nurse ready for each of her children in the village, or whether she felt they could be spoon-fed after their first few months of breast-feeding, we do not know; but she did use the word "weaning" in the case of three-month-old Cassandra, which suggests the latter.
		Austen lay upstairs in the four-poster, warmly bundled under her feather-beds, the baby in her cradle beside her, while someone else-very likely her sister-in-law Philadelphia Hancock-supervised the household, all the cleaning and cooking necessary where there were many small children, together with the extra washing for the newly delivered mother.
		Austen might read to the children after their three o'clock dinner, but boys like to run and slide up and down stairs, and there were no carpets to dull the noise.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/janeaustenabiography.htm (1222 words)

	Jane Austen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The only undisputed portrait of Jane Austen is a coloured sketch done by Cassandra which resides in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
		Ann Radcliffe, Austen is most famous for her later works, which took the form of socially conscious comedies of errors.
		These, especially Emma, are often cited for their perfection of form, while modern critics continue to unearth new perspectives on Austen's keen commentary regarding the predicament of young, unmarried, upper-class English women in the early 1800s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Austen (1222 words)

	Jane Austen
		There was in her nothing eccentric or angular; no ruggedness of temper; no singularity of manner..." Austen's sister Cassandra also never married.
		Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral, near the centre of the north aisle.
		Austen was well connected with the middling-rich landed gentry that she portrayed in her novels.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /jausten.htm (1222 words)

	Jane Austen biography
		Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire.
		Jane Austen was a major English novelist, whose brilliantly witty, elegantly structured satirical fiction marks the transition in English literature from 18th century neo-classicism to 19th century romanticism.
		Jane Austen died 18 July 1817 at Winchester and was buried in Winchester Cathedral.
	www.jasa.net.au /jabiog.htm (1222 words)

	FT January 2004: Jane Austen, Public Theologian
		When Austen wrote about it in a letter (to her sister Cassandra, January 29, 1813), she said she intended “to write of something else;—it shall be a complete change of subject—Ordination.” Indeed, that is its unlikely focus.
		On the first point, Austen’s novels seem to be relentlessly concerned with private life, concerned with “three or four families in a country town,” as she put it in one famous letter.
		To call Jane Austen a public theologian is counterintuitive for two reasons: she does not seem much interested in things public, and she does not seem much interested in things theological.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0401/articles/leithart.html (1222 words)

	ClassicNotes: About Jane Austen
		Her father, Reverend George Austen, was from Kent and attended the Tunbridge school before studying at Oxford and receiving a living as a rector at Steventon.
		Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775 at Steventon, England.
		Jane Austen published four novels anonymously during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815).
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_jane_austen.html (1222 words)

	Jane Austen - Free Online Library
		In 1809, Mrs Austen, Cassandra, Jane and Martha Lloyd moved to Chawton, near Alton.
		Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775.
		The English writer Jane Austen is among the world's most famous authors.
	austen.thefreelibrary.com (1222 words)

	Jane Austen Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Austen's devoted older sister, Cassandra, inherited all the author's papers, from which she expurgated some but not all of Jane's enduring wit and one-liners.
		That it appeared with a dedication to the Prince Regent, a person whose debauched lifestyle Austen had condemned, and a type she would normally satirize, is a story that might itself have stepped from one of her books -- all of them written by "laughing at myself or other people."
		On this day in 1815, Jane Austen completed Emma, the last of her novels to appear in her lifetime.
	todayinliterature.com /biography/jane.austen.asp (1222 words)

	Chawton - Jane Austen's literary home
		Jane Austen House and museum is housed in the charming red-brick 17th century house, listed in the National Archives as a building of historic interest.
		Jane Austen's House is an independent museum administered by the Jane Austen Memorial Trust.
		It was Jane's last home, where she lived with her mother and sister Cassandra from 1809 until 1817.
	www.hants.gov.uk /austen/chawton.html (1222 words)

	Jane Austen and Laurence Sterne
		In her letter of September 14, 1804 to her sister Cassandra, Jane Austen is describing the household arrangements during the family's visit to Lyme.
		Another indication that Jane Austen was familiar with Sterne's work comes from a congratulatory note sent to Jane Austen by her brother James Austen, after the publication of "Sense and Sensibility" :
		Elizabeth's Jenkins' biography of Jane Austen has some excellent comments upon landscaping and upon the "starling affair" -- see chapters 6 and 4 respectively.
	www.mirror.org /ken.roberts/austen.sterne.html (1222 words)

	Austen, Jane - Biography and Online Books
		There was in her nothing eccentric or angular; no ruggedness of temper; no singularity of manner..." Austen's sister Cassandra never married.
		Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral, near the centre of the north aisle.
		Austen's heroines are determined to marry wisely and well, but romantic Marianne is a character who feels intensely about everything and loses her heart to an irresponsible seducer.
	www.literaturepost.com /authors/Austen.html (1478 words)

	Jane "Persuasion" Austen
		Jane Austen was born 16 December 1775 at Steventon Parish, Hampshire, England.
		Jane was devoted to her older sister, Cassandra-Elizabeth, and eventually wrote enough letters to her to choke a horse.
		Jane was not surprised or disappointed; she'd only sent it in because her entire family was telling her to.
	incompetech.com /authors/austen (1541 words)

	Jane Austen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The only undisputed portrait of Jane Austen is a somewhat rudimentary coloured sketch done by Cassandra which resides in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
		Jane Austen was born at the rectory in Steventon, Hampshire, in 1775, daughter to the Rev.
		She had six brothers and one older sister, Cassandra, to whom she was very close.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Austen (1669 words)

	The Juvenilia Press
		Written by Jane Austen when she was probably only twelve, The Beautifull Cassandra is now brought to us as a full-colour picture book by Juliet McMaster, who envisages the characters as small animals in eighteenth-century clothing, in the manner of Beatrix Potter.
		In this little edition of two of Jane Austen's juvenilia, probably written at ages 12 and 15, the young novelist turns the spotlight on both the possibilities and the absurdities of the epistolary mode.
		Written by Jane Austen at age 12, 13, or 14, Henry and Eliza turns the story of the traditional novel heroine on its head as Eliza lives out the traditional male adventure -- she leaves her family, travels, faces danger, demonstrates cunning and bravery, and defeats her enemies in armed battle.
	www.arts.unsw.edu.au /juvenilia/catalogue/18cat.htm (1669 words)

	BUZZSCOPE :: Astonishing X-Men #8
		This said, the epilouge in Austen's last X-Men issue had the little kid Carter talking to an imaginery friend, who was a she, and was visible only by her evil looking eyes (freaky), who i reckon was suppossed to be Cassandra.
		Well for starters it can't be Cassandra Nova because Cassandra is Ernst (the little girl with the old lady face she carries that floating brain around...the one with needles stickin out of it that Sublime used against Emma and Cyclops...its a girl I forgot her name though.
		Cassandra Nova was Grant Morrisons first villain when he took over with the E is for Extinction arc, waaaay back in (New) X-Men# 114.
	www.popcultureshock.com /reviews.php?id=3891 (2132 words)

	Jane Austen Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Austen's devoted older sister, Cassandra, inherited all the author's papers, from which she expurgated some but not all of Jane's enduring wit and one-liners.
		Includes an Austen biography, literary criticism and analysis, background information on life in nineteenth century England, selected letters, portraits and illustrations, and excerpts on the author's reputation.
		What is fascinating about the two latest biographies of Jane Austen, by Claire Tomalin and David Nokes, is that they seem to be revising in concert, using just the same material, and come to pretty much the same general conclusions, but their emphases and subtler interpretations are remarkably unalike."
	todayinliterature.com /biography/jane.austen.asp (509 words)

	Jane Austen and Laurence Sterne
		In her letter of September 14, 1804 to her sister Cassandra, Jane Austen is describing the household arrangements during the family's visit to Lyme.
		Another indication that Jane Austen was familiar with Sterne's work comes from a congratulatory note sent to Jane Austen by her brother James Austen, after the publication of "Sense and Sensibility":
		Elizabeth's Jenkins' biography of Jane Austen has some excellent comments upon landscaping and upon the "starling affair" -- see chapters 6 and 4 respectively.
	www.mirror.org /ken.roberts/austen.sterne.html (692 words)

	Jane Austen Info Page
		Cassandra Austen's portrait of their niece Fanny Knight
		Jane Austen's opinion on the infidelities of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
		The Austen family coat of arms (Heraldic "blazon" or description: "Or, a chevron gules between three lions' gambs erect, erased sable armed of the second.
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/janeinfo.html (692 words)

	Jane Austen - Free Online Library
		Jane moved with her parents and Cassandra to Bath in 1801.
		The story of Lady Susan, a recent widow, who is looking to marry well again, but is forcing her daughter to marry someone against her will.
		All Jane's novels that appeared during her lifetime were published anonymously, merely bearing the legend "By a Lady".
	austen.thefreelibrary.com (536 words)

	Jane Austen's Biography: Life (1775-1817) and Family
		The main source of information about Jane Austen's life is family letters, especially those of Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra from 1796 onwards, supplemented by family recollections (which were generally not written down, however, until half a century after Jane Austen's death).
		1802, when Jane Austen and Cassandra were staying with the Bigg family at Manydown, near Steventon.
		However, the next day she thought better of it, and she and Cassandra showed up unexpectedly at Steventon (where their brother James was now the clergyman), insisting they be taken out of the neighbourhood to Bath the next day.
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/janelife.html (536 words)

	A Chronology of Austen's Writing Life
		From a note in Jane's sister, Cassandra's hand: First Impressions begun in Oct 1796/Finished in Augt 1797 Published/afterwards, with abbreviations and contractions/under the Title of Pride & Prejudice; from James- Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir: "Pride and Prejudice," which some consider the most brilliant of her novels, was the first finished, if not the first begun.
		My conjectured calendar sets what we have of Volume 1 in October 1801; "thirty years ago" takes us back to 1771; the action as outlined by Cassandra Austen suggests it would have ended within the year.
		The following chronology is based on the calendars I found in Austen's seven apparently finished novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan), the one clearly unfinished but detailed and worked out mature fragment (The Watsons) and the late rough draft of a novel, Sanditon.
	mason.gmu.edu /~emoody/jachronology.writinglife.html (3032 words)

	Jane Austen's Biography: Life (1775-1817) and Family
		His oldest child Fanny (1793-1882) was (along with Anna), one of Jane Austen's favorite nieces; some pieces in Jane Austen's Juvenilia were also dedicated to her in her infancy.
		Cassandra's letters to Fanny Knight announcing Jane's death.) She was buried in Winchester Cathedral on July 24th 1817 (at that time, so we are told, women did not usually attend funerals -- three years afterwards, Victoria's mother was not allowed to attend her husband's funeral -- so Cassandra was not present).
		First, because it lays such emphasis on her "sweetness" and Christian humility, even though it is rather clear from Jane Austen's novels (let alone her letters) that she was no Fanny Price.
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/janelife.html (3638 words)

	Jane Austen's Biography: Life (1775-1817) and Family
		1802, when Jane Austen and Cassandra were staying with the Bigg family at Manydown, near Steventon.
		However, the next day she thought better of it, and she and Cassandra showed up unexpectedly at Steventon (where their brother James was now the clergyman), insisting they be taken out of the neighbourhood to Bath the next day.
		Jane Austen was born December 16th, 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, England (near Basingstoke).
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/janelife.html (3638 words)

	Winchester
		When Jane was ill, she traveled to Winchester with her sister, Cassandra, in order to seek treatment.
		In Memory of JANE AUSTEN, youngest daughter of the late Revd GEORGE AUSTEN, formerly Rector of Steventon in this County.
		Unfortunately, the Winchester house in which Jane Austen died is not open to the public.
	faculty.rmwc.edu /janeausten/winchester.htm (730 words)

	Encyclopedia Britannica--Austen, Jane
		In 1801 the Austens moved to Bath, where Mr Austen died in 1805, leaving only Mrs Austen, Jane and her sister Cassandra, to whom she was always deeply attached, to keep up the home; his sons were out in the world, the two in the navy, Francis William and Charles, subsequently rising to admiral's rank.
		AUSTEN, JANE (1775-1817), English novelist, was born on the 16th of December 1775 at the parsonage of Steventon, in Hampshire, a village of which her father, the Rev. George Austen, was rector.
		Her first sixteen years were spent in the rectory at Steventon, where she began early to trifle with her pen, always jestingly, for family entertainment.
	home.earthlink.net /~lfdean/austen/critbio/britannica.html (730 words)

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