Jane Austen's laggard suitor

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Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 301-304

  Le Faye, Deirdre ^a  

^a Portishead ^*  (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1093/nq/47.3.301     Document Type: Article

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1. This and the second letter with enclosure are contained in a bundle of miscellaneous documents and correspondence addressed to Dr Chapman by many people over a number of years concerning the first and second editions of his Jane Austen's Letters. The bundle was sent by him in 1953 to Mr W. Hugh Curtis, FSA, in Alton; as Mr Curtis was involved there with the recently formed Jane Austen Society, Dr Chapman felt he was the best person to hold these papers. At some later date Mr Curtis passed the bundle to Mr T. Edward Carpenter, founder of the Jane Austen Memorial Trust, and it is now kept in the archives of the Trust at Jane Austen's House in Chawton. The writer's thanks are due to the present head of the Trust, Mr Tom Carpenter, for permission to study these papers during the summer of 1999 and to publish this particular correspondence
2. This reference is to the Brabourne edition of the Letters of Jane Austen (London, Bentley, 1884).
3. Jane Austen's Letters, ed. Deirdre Le Faye (OUP, 1995); now Letter No. 121, pp. 291 and 445.
4. For George Smith, see the memoir prefixed to the First Supplement of DNB; for Reginald John Smith see DNB for 1912-21.
5. Personal communication from the Regulation and Information Services of The Law Society, October 1999;
6. Law List for 1809; Knight archive in Hampshire Record Office -18M61/Box 71/14 and /17; Gentleman's Magazine for 1855(i), 545.
7. Le Faye, Letters Nos. 68(D) and 68(A), pp. 174-5.
8. Le Faye, Letter No. 71, p. 183.
9. Le Faye, Letter No. 77, p. 197.
10. For the pull-out third seat in a postchaise, see Northanger Abbey (ed. Chapman, Oxford University Press, 1965), 155
11. and Mansfield Park (ed. Chapman, Oxford University Press, 1966), 445.
12. Le Faye, Letters Nos. 129, p. 302, and 137, p. 311.
13. Le Faye, Letter No. 144, p. 318. Jane spells the name as 'Scrane', which is presumably as she had heard it spoken; however, this must be a quirk of early nineteenth-century pronunciation, as the bearer clearly spells it 'Skrine' in her own correspondence.
14. Knight archive in Hampshire Record Office: 18M61/Box F/Bundle 6/part 1.
15. Le Faye, ed. cit., 485.
16. For James Austen-Cartmell see: R. A. Austen-Leigh, Pedigree of Austen (privately printed 1940);
17. Venn, Alum. Cantab.; Times obituary, 30 May 1921.