Chawton House is famous today as the home of Jane Austen's brother Edward, who was adopted by a wealthy relative, Thomas Knight, and inherited his Hampshire estate. Edward offered the former bailiff's cottage close to the great house to his mother, who lived there with her unmarried daughters Jane and Cassandra. The house is now a study centre and library, for women's writing especially, but when this book was published in 1911 the building was still the Knight family home. Montagu Knight, the grandson of Edward, supplied material from the archives of the manor, while the book was largely written by his cousin William Austen Leigh, the son of Jane's nephew and memorialist. It covers the history of the manor from the Norman Conquest to the death of the second Edward in 1879, and, apart from the Austen connection, is a fascinating illustrated history of a typical English parish.
By:
William Austen Leigh, Montagu George Knight Imprint: Cambridge University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 151mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 350g ISBN:9781108076210 ISBN 10: 1108076211 Series:Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies Pages: 272 Publication Date:10 July 2014 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Note; 1. Eight centuries; 2. The manor; 3. The church; 4. The Knights and the building of Chawton House; 5. The Lewkenors and the Martins; 6. The Mays and the Brodnaxes; 7. The Austens; Appendices; Index.
