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Chawton Manor and its Owners, A Family History, William Austen Leigh, Montagu George Knight

Type

Label

Chawton Manor and its Owners, A Family History, William Austen Leigh, Montagu George Knight

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chawton Manor and its Owners

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1097112962

Responsibility statement

William Austen Leigh, Montagu George Knight

Series statement

Cambridge library collection. Literary studiesCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

A Family History

Summary

Chawton House is famous today as the home of Jane Austen's brother Edward, who was adopted by a wealthy relative, Thomas Knight, and inherited his Hampshire estate. Edward offered the former bailiff's cottage close to the great house to his mother, who lived there with her unmarried daughters Jane and Cassandra. The house is now a study centre and library, for women's writing especially, but when this book was published in 1911 the building was still the Knight family home. Montagu Knight, the grandson of Edward, supplied material from the archives of the manor, while the book was largely written by his cousin William Austen Leigh, the son of Jane's nephew and memorialist. It covers the history of the manor from the Norman Conquest to the death of the second Edward in 1879, and, apart from the Austen connection, is a fascinating illustrated history of a typical English parish.--, Provided by publisher

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