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May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland
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By: Sophia Hillan
Publisher: Blackstaff Press
Published: September 2011
Pages: 272
Categories: Biography, Non-Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Hardback
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ISBN-13: 9780856408687

Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight May, Lou and Cass were Jane Austen's nieces. She knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up. Often the subjects of her witty letters, they were still young girls when Jane died in 1817. Yet, had she lived, she would have seen them live out the plots of her famous novels. Handsome noblemen, dashing officers and penurious clergymen sought her nieces hands; just like Austen s cherished heroines, they knew well the pains of blighted love and the joy of patience rewarded and they also knew the sorrow of losing their childhood home. Yet even Jane Austen could not have imagined that her genteel nieces would find themselves in Ireland, a land riven with famine and land wars. How did these three young gentlewomen come to end their lives so far from Jane Austen s ordered, mannered Regency England?

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