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OverviewChawton 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: William Austen Leigh , Montagu George KnightPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.350kg ISBN: 9781108076210ISBN 10: 1108076211 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 10 July 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor Informationfm.author_biographical_note1 fm.author_biographical_note2 Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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