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2 unusual facts about Sandra Lerner


Sandra Lerner

In November 2011, she published a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice titled Second Impressions using the pen name of Ava Farmer (for A Virginia farmer); she plans to make it into a movie.

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.


Chawton House

In 1992 a 125-year lease on the house was purchased for £1.25 million by a foundation established by Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack, co-founders of Cisco Systems.


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