A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Index 271
possible love affairs 28–9, 186,
187–8, 191–2; at Bath 58–65; at
Southampton 65–7; at seaside
59–61, 63 n., 188; move to Chawton
67, 166–7; household duties at
Chawton 171; ‘with Chawton . . .
that her name as an Author, must be
identified’ 166; visits to London
86–9, 91–3, 99–101, 149–50; last
known letter 120 and note, 130, 142,
150–1; final illness, last words, and
death 124, 126–31, 138, 147–8, 187;
grave in Winchester Cathedral 131,
138, 187, 198
and family: closeness to sister 18–19,
160, 175; strong family unity 19,
170, 175; nurses Henry Austen
91–2, 175–6; on JEAL 126; and
Eliza de Feuillide 27 n., 28; and
Fanny Knight 84, 89, 158–9, 260
headnote; and Anna Austen Lefroy
73, 75, 76–7 and note, 158–9; shock
at Leigh Perrot will 120 and note;
and Mary Lloyd 79 and note, 131
and note
and friends: the Fowles 120, 178 and
note, 193–4 and note; Anne Lefroy
44 and note, 49–50, 186; the Lloyds
53 and note, 62 and note, 63 n., 67,
79, 120–1, 166; the Bigg-Wither
family 29 n., 54 and note, 110,
126–7, 128, 129, 179, 187–8, 191;
Bath society 61–5; Chawton society
171–2; Chawton Reading Club 106
and note
and publishers: Thomas Cadell 105
and note; Crosby and Co. 105 and
note; Thomas Egerton 82 n.; John
Murray 82 n., 99–102; methods of
publication 100 n.; novel profits 82
and note
qualities: inherited features 15, 137;
character 132, 139, 148; powers of
observation 116; distress at leaving
Steventon 50 and note, 185; love of
natural scenery 24–6; Christian
beliefs 79–80, 141, 153–4; kindness
to children 72–3; love of the
ridiculous 73–4; seclusion from
literary world 90, 149–50, 151
non-family recollections of JA: Ann
Barrett 196–7; Egerton Brydges 44
and note; Fulwar William Fowle
194; Mary Russell Mitford 133–4
and note
her letters: ‘not to expect too much
from them’ 50; ‘more truly
descriptive of her temper . . . than
any thing which the pen of a
biographer can produce’ 142; ‘no
transcript of her mind’ 174; to
Cassandra Austen 51–3, 56, 56–7,
59–61, 61–3, 63–5, 83–9; to Charles
Austen 120 and note; to Martha
Lloyd 54–5; to Anna Austen Lefroy
72, 74, 76–7, 106–7, 119; to JEAL
120–2, 122–4, 129–30, 142; to
Caroline Austen 127; to an
unnamed correspondent (Mrs
Frances Tilson?) 120 and note, 130,
142; to Alethea Bigg 126–7; to
James Stanier Clarke 92–3, 94–5,
95–6; to John Murray 99–102; to
Lady Morley 102–3
as writer: first compositions: ‘juvenile
effusions’ 39–42, 186; habits of
composition 81–2, 138, 173
views on her own talents 94–6; ‘three
or four families in a country village’
76; ‘I could no more write a romance
than an epic poem’ 96; ‘desire to
create, not to reproduce’ 118; ‘the
little bit . . . of ivory on which I
work’ 123; authorship, a secret 140,
149–50; on her characters’ later
lives 119 and note; manuscripts
dispersed 184; ‘she always said her
books were her children’ 191;
19th-c. admirers 110–15
novels: Emma: dedication to Prince
Regent 92 and note, 100, 176;
‘Opinions’ on 114 and note;
reviewed in Quarterly Review 101
and note, 107–8, 118; views on 119;
Anna Lefroy as Emma 119 n.;
Mansfield Park: ‘nothing of herself
in Fanny Price’ 28–9; at work on
81, 85; approved by Henry Austen
88–9; revised for second edn. 101;
‘Opinions’ on 106 and note,
114; Northanger Abbey (‘Susan’,
‘Catherine’) 35, 44, 82, 117 and