A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family: 1600-2000

Description

For nearly forty years Deirdre Le Faye, one of the world's leading authorities on Jane Austen, has been gathering and organising every single piece of information available about the Austen family before, during and after Jane's lifetime. She has now collected all this material together to produce a unique chronology, containing some 15,000 entries. For the first time, those interested in Jane Austen can discover where she was and what she was doing at many precise moments of her life. The entries, many taken from hitherto unexplored and unpublished documents, are presented in a clear and readable form, and each item of information is linked to its source. The volume includes family trees for the extended Austen and Knight families from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. This is a key work of reference that every scholar and reader of Austen will find fascinating and indispensable.

Deirdre Le Faye is a biographer and editor of Jane Austen and is the author of Jane Austen: A Family Record (revised edition, Cambridge University Press, 2004).

'... an indispensable addition to all libraries with humanities collections and those concerned with the facts relating to one of our greatest literary figures.' William Baker, Reference Reviews