A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Explanatory Notes 267
attorney living in Alton and helping with the business of the Chawton
estate during the period c.1813–16. JEAL draws on these recollections
(as ‘by a friend’) at Memoir, 118.
197 HRO, MS 23M93/85/2: a substantial, unpaginated prose manuscript,
written c.1880–5 by Fanny Caroline Lefroy (1820–85), Anna’s fourth
child, recounting the history of the Austen and Lefroy families. It contains
copies of JA’s letters to Anna Lefroy, transcribed extracts from
Caroline Austen’s manuscript books (published as Reminiscences of
Caroline Austen, ed. Deirdre Le Faye, 1986), and extracts from the papers
of other members of the Austen family. Though not the account of
someone known to JA, it nevertheless became a repository for copies
of primary documents of those who did know her. Included here
are extracts from the ‘Family History’ describing the reaction to JA’s
death, in the words of her brother Frank Austen and of her mother, Mrs
Cassandra Austen, Fanny Lefroy’s great grandmother.