A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Austen, Elizabeth, see Feuillide, Eliza de
Austen, Fanny Catherine, see Knight,
Fanny Catherine
Austen, Francis (Frank) William
(1774–1865; JA’s brother): ‘Fly’
36 n.; character 17 and note;
childhood anecdote of 36 and note;
naval career 17 and note, 56;
disappointment at missing Battle of
Trafalgar 56 n.; living at Chawton
and Alton 170 and note; his death
prompts preparation of Memoir 166
and note
and family: shares house with mother
and sisters in Southampton 65 n.;
‘many children’ 73 and note, 121
and note, 170 and note; re-marriage
to Martha Lloyd 53 n.
and JA: letters from JA (not to be
printed by JEAL) 17 n., 69 n., 173;
Captain Harville in P modelled on
17 n.; writes to Ben Lefroy of JA’s
death 197; at JA’s funeral 187, 198;
gives away JA autograph 114–15;
inherits JA manuscripts 184
Austen, Revd George (1731–1805; JA’s
father) 10–11 and note, 13, 137, 167,
188–9; appearance 15; coaches
pupils 15, 26 and note; literary taste
137, 147; death 59, 62 and note
and JA: dedicatee 40; letter to Cadell
105 and note, 185; ‘Where are the
Girls?’ 157
Austen, George (1766–1838; JA’s
brother) 16 n.
Austen, Henry Edgar (1811–54, JA’s
nephew and Frank’s son) 73 and
note
Austen, Henry Thomas (1771–1850;
JA’s brother), ill. 136; character and
biography 16–17 and note, 63, 257;
letter to Warren Hastings 13 n.;
illness and recovery 91–2, 175–6;
failure of bank 101 and note, 120
and note, 170 and note; ordination /
‘Our own new clergyman’ 126
and family: marriage to Eliza de Feuillide
27
literary activities: The Loiterer
16 n.; ‘superior sermons’ 123;
‘Biographical Notice of the Author’
Index
135–43, 257 headnote; ‘Memoir of
Miss Austen’ 145–54, 258–9
headnote
and JA: entertains JA in London
86–9; reading MP 88–9; negotiations
on novels 99–100, 106 and
note; and JA’s last illness 129, 130,
187; JA’s ‘especial pride and delight’
175 and note; no letters from JA
kept 184; unlucky allusion to JA’s
deathbed verses 190 and note;
arranges JA’s funeral 198; sells JA
copyrights to Richard Bentley,
publisher 258
Austen, Revd James (1765–1819; JA’s
brother) 16, 52; produces amateur
theatricals 28 and note; inhabits
Steventon rectory 29 n., 50; illness
and death 126 and note
and family: ‘my own father’ (JEAL)
16; re-marriage to Mary Lloyd 53;
visits Henry Austen when ill 175;
arranges Uncle Leigh Perrot’s affairs
after death 178
literary activities: The Loiterer 16 and
note; his poetry quoted 21 and note,
24 and note; author of prologues and
epilogues 28 and note
and JA: directs JA’s early reading 16;
writes to JA 121; JA sends message
to 123–4; in Winchester during JA’s
final illness 130, 187; not at JA’s
funeral 9, 187
AUSTEN, JANE (1775–1817) ill. 2;
appearance 44, 70, 139, 158, 169;
books and reading 71 n., 85, 141,
172; ‘I detest a quarto’ 85; ‘she
seldom changed her opinions either
on books or men’ 141; chronology
lviii–lxii; enthusiasm for navy 197;
favourite authors 71–2, 141;
languages 28, 70–1 and note, 183;
love of dancing 32, 139; music
34 n., 139, 170–1, 183; opinions on
history 71, 173; politics 18, 71, 173;
portraits 192; sewing and manual
dexterity 77–9; songs 70, 193 and
note, 194; voice 70, 140, 174–5, 194
life: birth and baptism 10, 157; early
years at Steventon 21–7, 32 n., 36–7,
39; earliest anecdote of 160–2;