To Cassandra, from Steventon, "Charles Powlett has been very ill, but is getting well again;-his wife is discovered to be everything that the Neighbourhood could wish her, silly & cross as well as extravagant." - Jane Austen, Tuesday 18-Wednesday 19 December 1798
We have covered Charles Powlett a few times; here is a link.
http://allthings-jane-austen.blogspot.com/search?q=charles+powlett
Charles Powlett's wife was Anne (Nancy) Temple. They married in November 1796. She was from the Temple family of St. Gluvias, Cornwall. Her father was Reverend William-Johnston Temple.
Reverend William-Johnston Temple has his own Wikipedia page and not because his son-in-law was a close neighbor to Jane Austen, but because he was a college classmate, close friend, and correspondent to James Boswell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Johnson_Temple
The same James Boswell who wrote The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides and the Life of Johnson.
http://www.jamesboswell.info/aboutjb
Jane Austen wrote to Cassandra about their father purchasing James Boswell's books in Letter Twelve, Post Nine. Here is a link:
http://allthings-jane-austen.blogspot.com/search?q=life+of+johnson
The letter's James Boswell wrote to Reverend Temple have been published and can be read at this link:
https://archive.org/stream/lettersofjamesbo00bosw/lettersofjamesbo00bosw_djvu.txt
How cool is that?
It is interesting how small a world we live in. It does not seem that Jane Austen cared for the Reverend's daughter Anne very much, but she just might have enjoyed a conversation with the Reverend himself, and I would guess he would have been quite entertained.
I hope you enjoyed your day today!
Terrie
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