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Arthur Henry Austen-Leigh (28 February 1836 – 29 July 1917) was an English Anglican vicar, cricketer and footballer. Austen-Leigh was born at Speen, Berkshire in February 1836, to Emma Smith and her husband, the vicar, James Edward Austen-Leigh, who was a nephew to the novelist Jane Austen.
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- AUSTENS AND LEIGHS. 1600-1764. At the end of the sixteenth century there was living at Horsmonden—a small village in the Weald of Kent—a certain John Austen.
- STEVENTON. 1764-1785. Steventon is a small village tucked away among the Hampshire Downs, about seven miles south of Basingstoke. It is now looked down upon at close quarters by the South-Western Railway, but, at the time of which we are writing, it was almost equidistant from two main roads: one running from Basingstoke to Andover, which would be joined at Deane Gate, the other from Basingstoke to Winchester, joined at Popham Lane.
- WARREN HASTINGS AND THE HANCOCKS. 1752-1794. The title of this chapter may seem at first sight to remove it far from the life of Jane Austen; but Mrs. Hancock (who had been Philadelphia Austen) was her aunt, and Eliza Hancock not only a cousin but also a close friend; and both were always welcome visitors at Steventon.
- FAMILY LIFE. 1779-1792. The eldest brother of the family, James, was nearly eleven years older than Jane, and had taken his degree at Oxford before she left school.
Jane Austen ( / ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːstɪn / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published "Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters. A Family Record" (1913). The book lovingly details Jane's birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity; the everyday minutiae of her life, the circumstances in which she wrote her juvenilia ...
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Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh has 25 books on Goodreads with 1107 ratings. Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh’s most popular book is Northanger Abbey / Persuasion.
Rev. ed. of: Jane Austen: a family record / by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh; revised and enlarged by Deirdre Le Faye, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
Austen-Leigh Family. Lieutenant Lionel Arthur Austen-Leigh and Captain Arthur Alexander Austen-Leigh were brothers, sons of Rev Arthur Henry Austen-Leigh and his wife, Mary Violet Hall-Say. The brothers were great great nephews of Jane Austen, descended from her brother, Rev James Austen.
