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May, Lou & Cass, Jane Austen's nieces in Ireland, Sophia Hillan

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May, Lou & Cass, Jane Austen's nieces in Ireland, Sophia Hillan

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-282) and index

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non fiction

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May, Lou & Cass

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bibliography

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755169522

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Sophia Hillan

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Jane Austen's nieces in Ireland

Summary

"Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight--May, Lou and Cass--were Jane Austen's nieces. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up, and they were often the subjects of her witty letters. The Knight sisters went on to lead lives that bore a remarkable resemblance to the plots of their aunt's famous novels.... Yet even Jane Austen could not have imagined that her genteel nieces would find themselves in Ireland, a country riven with famine and land wars.... [This book] tells for the first time the story of the Knight sisters and their extraordinary journey from the ordered world of Regency England to the turbulent upheaval of nineteenth-century Ireland."--P. [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction: daughters of the house -- 'Everybody is rich there': Jane Austen and the Knights of Godmersham, 1779-1817 -- 'Goodbye from the cowhouse': two weddings, a scandal and a refusal, 1817-1826 -- 'No money, all charms': Pride, prejudice, and persuasion, 1827-1834 -- 'Wintering in England': Cassandra's marriage, 1834-1842 -- 'The manners there': Louisa and Lord George, 1842-1849 -- 'Our lost home': Marianne and her brothers, 1849-1860 -- 'I can't live by myself': life after Godmersham, 1860-1881 -- 'The fashion to be poor': Lady George, Miss Knight and Miss Hill, 1879-1895 -- Postscript: a new century

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Jane Austen's nieces in Ireland

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