A Memoir of Jane Austen

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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com224Explanatory NotesAustens’ neighbours at Deane House. He had joined the Royal Marinesand in 1797 married Sarah Scott, ‘a girl of apparently doubtfulreputation’ (Letters, 533).52 Marcau: JA wrote ‘Marcou’ (Letters, 55). The islands of St Marcouf offthe French coast at Normandy, then occupied by British forces.53 Mr. Heathcote: See JEAL’s note at p. 55.Lord Portsmouth’s ball: see JEAL’s note at p. 54.Sweep: the curved drive leading to the house.maple: JA wrote ‘Maypole’, which makes better sense (Letters, 57).Miss Lloyd: Martha Lloyd (1765–1843), eldest daughter of the RevdNowis (or Noyes) Lloyd and his wife, and a close friend of the Austens.She became part of their household in 1805, living with them at Bath,Southampton, and Chawton. In 1828 she married JA’s brother Frank ashis second wife. The letter to Martha Lloyd is no. 26 in Letters, and itrecapitulates many of the details in that to Cassandra of four days earlier.It remained in Frank Austen’s possession after Martha’s death and wasgiven by him to an autograph hunter, Eliza Susan Quincy, of Boston,Mass., in 1852. She supplied JEAL with a copy for Ed.2 of the Memoir.In Chapter 9 below, JEAL includes under ‘Opinions of American Readers’the letter from Susan Quincy to Frank Austen which elicited the sendingof JA’s letter to Martha to America. (See M. A. DeWolfe Howe, ‘A JaneAusten Letter With Other “Janeana” From an Old Book of Autographs’,Yale Review, 15 (1925–6), 319–35, for fuller details of the correspondencebetween Frank Austen and Susan Quincy. In sending the autograph,Frank wrote: ‘I scarcely need observe that there never was the remotestidea of its being published’ (ibid. 322). See, too, Farnell Parsons, ‘TheQuincys and the Austens: A Cordial Connection’, Jane Austen SocietyReport (2000), 49–51.)54 Ibthorp: JA writes here and elsewhere Ibthrop (Letters, 58), giving someindication of the pronunciation. It was Martha’s home until 1805, andCassandra and Jane were frequent guests there.Manydown: the home of other close friends, the Bigg-Wither family, atWootton St Lawrence, six miles from Steventon. Catherine and AletheaBigg were particular friends of JA, and their younger brother HarrisBigg-Wither was to propose to her in 1802 (see note to p. 29 above).55 Henry’s History of England: Robert Henry, History of Great Britain (6vols., 1771–93).desultory: JA wrote ‘disultary’ (Letters, 59).56 battle of Trafalgar: October 1805, when the British fleet under LordNelson defeated the French and Spanish. Frank Austen wrote to hisfiancée, Mary Gibson, of his disappointment at missing the action (SailorBrothers, 155).My Dear Cassandra: written from Manydown, the home of JA’s friendsCatherine and Alethea Bigg, 11 February 1801. This is an extract only
Fore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comMore oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comExplanatory Notes 225from a longer letter, for which see no. 34 in Letters. The autograph letterwas bequeathed by Cassandra to Charles Austen whose daughter CassyEsten made it available to JEAL. Cassandra was at the time of its writingstaying in London with Henry and Eliza Austen, and JA is sending thelatest news of Frank and Charles, both on recent active service in theMediterranean, Charles on HMS Endymion and Frank now on his wayhome after distinguished action as commanding officer of HMS Petrel.Sir Ralph Abercrombie: General Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734–1801),appointed in 1801 to command British troops in the Mediterranean.jolly and affable: JA wrote ‘fat, jolly & affable’ (Letters, 80).while Steventon is ours: the Austens left Steventon in May 1801, beforewhich Edward, Frank, and Charles all made farewell visits to their oldhome (Life & Letters, 164).later in the same year: a short extract from a much longer letter to Cassandra,written from Bath, 26–7 May 1801 (no. 38 in Letters). Again,JEAL was indebted to Charles’s daughter Cassy Esten for it.privateer: an armed vessel, owned and officered by private persons, butwith a government commission to act against hostile nations.gold chains and topaze crosses for us: according to Le Faye, the two topazcrosses remained with Letter 38 as it descended through CharlesAusten’s family and later into the auction rooms (Letters, 379, n. 4). (SeeG. H. Tucker, ‘Jane Austen’s Topaz Cross’, Jane Austen Society Report(1978), 76–7.) The gift provided JA with the idea for the ‘very prettyamber cross’ which William Price brought from Sicily for his sisterFanny in MP, ch. 26. Charles Austen’s experiences as a midshipman inthe West Indies and his adventurous early career (Sailor Brothers, 21–2)are generally considered to be the originals for William Price.58 afterwards in Green Park Buildings: the Austens arrived in Bath in May1801, when they took the lease on No. 4 Sydney Place (not Terrace asJEAL writes), though they did not move in until the autumn, spendingthe intervening months with the Leigh Perrots (see notes below) or onholiday on the Devonshire coast and, for a short time, back in Steventon.They moved to 3 Green Park Buildings in October 1804 (Fam. Rec.,117–20; 126).Mr. Leigh Perrot: Mrs Austen’s brother (see note to p. 37 above). He nowdivided his time between Scarlets, his Berkshire estate, and Bath, wherehe sought treatment for chronic gout. At this time he and his wife wererenting 1 Paragon Buildings, Bath. On the death of Mrs Leigh Perrot in1836 JEAL inherited Scarlets, with the proviso that he take the name ofLeigh in addition to Austen.Northleigh: Northleach in Ed.1. It was this Oxfordshire estate, inheritedin 1751 (when he added Perrot to his name), which Mr Leigh Perrot soldto buy Scarlets.
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