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unusual facts about Edward Austen Knight


Chawton House Library

This collection of books was once owned by Edward Austen Knight, the brother of Jane Austen, and it is known that she used this collection of books.


George Kersley, Sr.

His mother Elizabeth Knight (born 1796 Headley) was a relative of the famous novelist Jane Austen whose brother Edward Austen Knight was adopted by the Knight family.

Sandra Lerner

In 1992, through the foundation she shares with Leonard Bosack, she invested money into the restoration of the manor house in the English county of Hampshire owned by Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen Knight, Chawton House, making it a center for the study of English women's writing.


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