Happy Birthday Amy!!!!!
To Cassandra, from Steventon, "I beleive the Servants were very glad to see us, Nanny was I am sure; she confesses that it was very dull, & yet she had her Child with her till last Sunday." - Jane Austen, Saturday 27-Sunday 28 October 1798
This is very great proof that the Austen's were amiable people; the people who worked for them were glad for their return.
For information on Nanny see letter #10, post #7.
On a completely unrelated subject, I was reading the history of Sunbonnet Sue today (I know, but I like to be crafty and I have always thought Sunbonnet Sue's are so sweet). Anyway, as I was reading it was mentioned that Kate Greenway first drew children in Regency dress and I thought, maybe that's why I like Sunbonnet Sue so much, and then I remembered the watercolor painting Cassandra did of Jane and I thought, she looks like a Sunbonnet Sue. Kate Greenway made her drawings in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Cassandra drew this picture in 1804, so I think that makes Cassandra Austen the originator of the Sunbonnet Sue image and Jane Austen the original Sunbonnet Sue. My husband thinks I have gone off the deep end and am drowning in Austenland. Oh well, it is a nice way to go.
I hope you enjoyed your day today!
Terrie
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