Letter #3

Friday 16 September 2011
Letter #3, To Cassandra, from Cork Street, London, "Edward has heard from Henry this morning. He has not been at the Races, at all, unless his [ p. 2] driving Miss Pearson over to Rowling one day can be so called. We shall find him there on Thursday." - Jane Austen, Tuesday 23 August 1796, Tuesday morning.

More to come about Miss Pearson for sure! She was Henry's intended at this time and Jane gives her opinion of her in a later letter.

Henry-Thomas Austen, (8 June 1771 to 12 March 1850), the fourth child and said to be Jane's favorite brother and the most like her.

I am thinking it will be easier to understand who all of these people are if I make a seperate page for each person. So, it is, possibly, a goal.

In the meantime, I have started reading Jane Austen, Her Homes and Her Friends, by Constance Hill, first published in 1902. Constance Hill and her sister traveled to all of the places Jane Austen lived and wrote about it. I have read the first two chapters, one-a-day - just like the vitamins ;). Yesterday we arrived at Dean, today Steventon. This book is charming and this is the link to read it on-line. Take a look if you have the time.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hill/austen/homes.html

This is a link to a little more information about Steventon.
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/austen/deane-parsonage/steventon-village.htm