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Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc.
(ABN 87 492 740 750)

A Century of Wills from Jane Austen’s Family, 1705-1806

With introductions by Jon Spence

• About this book
• About the author
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About this book

145 x 210 mm (A5) 120 pp + cover illustrated. 2 pp of colour plates fold-out family tree Discounts for JASA members

The Jane Austen Society of Australia is making available in print for the first time fifteen fascinating documents that are our primary sources of information about Jane Austen’s forebears and their interconnections. The wills are meticulously transcribed, while retaining the original spelling. An introduction to each document facilitates the reader’s understanding of the testators and their principal heirs, and an index is provided for easy cross-reference. Two pedigrees, one of Austen’s paternal line and the other of her maternal line, are provided to show the testators and their heirs and their familial relationships to Jane Austen.

These wills are the public record of the more intimate, half-hidden dramas of the families that converged to create the social and economic inheritance of Jane Austen’s nuclear family, the Austens of Steventon.

The following wills make up this collection:  John Austen, William Austen, Stephen Austen, Cope Freeman, John Cope Freeman, Philadelphia (Austen) Hancock; Theophilus Leigh, John Walker, James Perrott, Henry Perrot, Thomas Perrot, Ann Perrot, Thomas Leigh, Jane (Walker) Leigh, and the Hon. Mary Leigh.

About the author

Jon Spence was until recently Professor of English Literature at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He has published essays in various scholarly journals on Jane Austen and other British and American fiction writers. For the introductions to the individual Wills in this collection, he has drawn on his research into Jane Austen's family for a biography of Jane Austen.

Prices (including postage and handling)

$A20 
+ postage: $A5 in Australia, $10 other countries

• Payment MUST be in Australian dollars, and must be received free of any charges.
• Overseas purchasers please pay using international bank draft.
• Cheques (Australia-only) should be made payable to the Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc.
• No international personal cheques can be accepted.

How to order

Order direct from JASA using the JASA 'wills' order form. Complete the form (onscreen if you like), then be print it out and send it, with your payment in Australian dollars (Overseas purchasers use an international bank draft. Payment must be received free of any charges.) to:

A Century of Wills
Jane Austen Society of Australia Inc.
Jan Roberts
B47/31-37 Pacific Parade
Dee Why NSW 2099 
Tel (02) 9981 3451
books@jasa.net.au

Delivery: allow 2 weeks from the date of order.

Complete the JASA 'wills' order form now to order your copy/ies of A Century of Wills.

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23 May 2008

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