Jane Austen’s family: Media
Sister, sailor brothers, and a favorite niece: explore Jane Austen’s family tree and meet the relatives who shaped her life.
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Jane Austen depicted the comedy of manners and middle-class life in early 19th-century...
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The 18th-century Palladian mansion in Godmersham Park, Kent, was once home to Edward...
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Portrait of Reverend George Austen (1731–1805), father of novelist Jane Austen and...
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Portrait of James Austen, the eldest brother of novelist Jane Austen.
From Jane Austen and her times 1905, book by Geraldine Edith Mitton, pen name G. E. Mitton, (1868-1955). Illustration- From a Family Miniature.
Oil painting of a young Edward Austen, later Edward Austen Knight, brother of novelist...
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Portrait of Henry Austen, novelist Jane Austen's brother, who was her first biographer.
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Engraving from 1810 depicting novelist Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra doing...
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Miniature portrait of Francis Austen, novelist Jane Austen's fifth brother, shown...
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Jane Austen, a 19th-century engraving likely derived from a portrait by her sister,...
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Miniature portrait of Charles Austen, the youngest brother of novelist Jane Austen.
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A chart outlining the immediate family of novelist Jane Austen, showing her parents...
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An oil painting from 1809 depicting Chawton House and its adjacent church captures...
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