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Anna Austen Lefroy (1793-1872) (Jane-Anna-Elizabeth Austen/Anna Lefroy) was the niece of Jane Austen, and a contributor to her life-history via the so-called Lefroy MS. A keen if amateur writer herself, Anna was the recipient of the most revealing of Austen's letters on literary matters.[1] LifeKnown in family tradition as a naughty child,[2] Anna became a lively, outgoing and changeable adolescent - "quite an Anna with variations" as her Aunt put it (startled by the unexpected cropping of her niece's hair).[3] At the age of twenty, Anna became engaged to a family connection, Benjamin Lefroy, and despite family opposition the pair were married in 1814.[4] The marriage seems to have been a successful one, and by 1817 the pair had two young daughters, and Anna was apparently expecting again: "Poor Animal, she will be worn out before she is thirty", wrote her (perhaps envious) Aunt.[5] The couple had seven children in all, before Anna lost her husband in 1829.[6] WritingsNiece and aunt had bonded over a love of 'bad' romantic fiction, such as that by Rachel Hunter; and when during her engagement Anna began writing a novel - known as Enthusiasm or Which is the Heroine? - it was natural for her to share it with her aunt.[7] Anna also tried her hand at continuing an early Austen story called 'Evelyn';[8] as well as (later) the unfinished Sanditon.[9] See Also
References1. ^Ronald Blythe, Introduction, Emma (Penguin Ed.) p. 10 2. ^R A Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: A Family Record (London 1989) p. 161-2 3. ^Deirdre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1995) p. 184 (and p. 170) 4. ^Deirdre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1995) p. 425 and p. 546 5. ^Deirdre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1995) p. 336 and p. 327 6. ^Deirdre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1995) p. 546 7. ^Deirdre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1995) p.443 and p. 267 8. ^L Bree, Jane Austen's Manuscript Works (2012) p. 5 and p. 591 9. ^K Sutherland ed., A Memoir of Jane Austen (2008) p. 260 External links
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