A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Chronology
1807 March, the Austens move into house in Castle Square,
Southampton.
1808 10 October, death of Edward Austen’s wife, Elizabeth.
1809 5 April, JA attempts unsuccessfully to secure publication of
‘Susan’; the Austens move to Chawton Cottage, owned by
JA’s brother Edward.
1810 Sense and Sensibility accepted for publication by Thomas
Egerton.
1811 February, JA planning Mansfield Park; March, JA staying with
Henry in London and correcting proofs of Sense and Sensibility;
30 October, Sense and Sensibility published; ?Winter,
JA begins revising ‘First Impressions’ as Pride and Prejudice.
1812 Death of Mrs Thomas Knight; Edward Austen officially takes
name of Knight; Autumn, JA sells copyright of Pride and
Prejudice to Egerton.
1813 28 January, Pride and Prejudice published; 25 April, Eliza de
Feuillide Austen dies; ?July, JA finishes Mansfield Park; Anna
Austen engaged to Ben Lefroy; November, second editions of
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
1814 21 January, JA begins Emma; 9 May, Mansfield Park published
by Egerton; 8 November, marriage of Anna Austen and Ben
Lefroy.
1815 29 March, Emma finished; July, Mary Lloyd Austen and Caroline
Austen stay at Chawton; 8 August, JA begins Persuasion;
Anna and Ben Lefroy move to Wyards, near Chawton; October,
JA in London nursing Henry who is ill; 13 November,
JA visits the Prince Regent’s Library at Carlton House;
December, Emma published by John Murray.
1816 Spring, JA begins to feel unwell; Henry buys back MS of
‘Susan’, which JA revises (as ‘Catharine’) and intends to offer
again for publication; 15 March, Henry’s bank fails and he
leaves London; 18 July, first draft of Persuasion finished;
6 August, Persuasion finally completed; second edition of
Mansfield Park from Murray; December, Henry ordained and
becomes curate of Chawton.
1817 27 January–18 March, JA at work on ‘Sanditon’; 28 March,
death of Mr Leigh Perrot, JA’s uncle; 27 April, JA makes her
will; 24 May, Cassandra takes JA to Winchester, where they