101 Amazing Facts about Jane Austen by Jack Goldstein & Isabella Reese

Author:Jack Goldstein & Isabella Reese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pride, prejudice, zombies, austen, emma, catherine, Saints Row, sense, sensibility, mansfield, Northanger, susan, watsons, plan of a novel, fact, fun, learn, fiction, author, biography, fascinating, education
ISBN: 9781783336890
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Interesting Facts

Jane Austen is set to become the new face on the reverse of the British £10 note coming into circulation from 2017 (of course, the Queen features on the front); this after an outcry that all other bank notes at the time the decision was made featured men. Austen will be only the third woman to appear since pictures were first featured as a security device, following Elizabeth Fry and Florence Nightingale.

Jane’s family and close friends would stage a variety of plays, including Richard Sheridan’s The Rivals and David Garrick’s Bon Ton. It is believed that between the ages of seven and thirteen Jane joined in these activities, first as a spectator and then when she was older as a participant.

Austen’s parents used what could be considered now as unusual parenting techniques, but at the time were quite common for families of their social class. To save room in the crowded house, each of the children were sent to live with a neighbouring woman from the time they were three months old until they were two (although their parents did visit every day).

Austen once fell in love with a man called Tom Lefroy. Sadly, his family believed Jane was unsuitable and wished for him to marry a richer woman.

Sense and Sensibility was originally titled Elinor and Marianne. When the first edition of the book was published with its final name in 1811, the author was listed as ‘A Lady’.

The Austen sisters were inseparable and lived together all of their lives.

Jane used to love visiting Lyme Regis. She would write fondly of it in her personal letters and in Persuasion, in which you will find the line ‘...and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme’.

Northanger Abbey was originally submitted as Susan and was bought by Cosby and Company in 1803. However, they did not publish it, and sold it back to Jane’s brother Henry after she had died not realising it was from the hand of a famous author!

Jane was scared of thunder and lightning and would prefer to wait out the storms by candle-light and with the window blinds drawn.

In one of her letters, Jane writes of how she attended a ball and met a girl whom she called a ‘queer animal with a white neck’ - the girl was Rosalie, daughter of Sir Thomas Champney.

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