Harriet Palmer
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Harriet Palmer was a woman born in St George’s, Bermuda. Her father was Bermuda's Attorney General.[1] Harriet and her parents, returned to England in 1802, when she was 16 years old. Her siblings, Esther and Robert John, and Fanny remained in Bermuda.
Sheila Johnson Kindred, who wrote a biography of her younger sister Fanny, suggested that Harriet and her parents returned to England in order to find her a husband.[1]
Her younger sister Fanny married Charles Austen, in 1807, and died in childbirth in 1814.[1] Harriet, in turn, married Austen in 1820.[2]
Her husband died of fever, in the far east, while on active duty, in 1865.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sheila Johnson Kindred (2017). "Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen". McGill University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vjqqb3. Retrieved 2023-05-25. "'A VERY PLEASING LITTLE WOMAN, she is gentle and amiable in her manners, and appears to make [Charles] very happy' (Fig. 1). Such were the words of Cassandra Austen when she and her sister Jane first met Fanny Palmer, their brother Charles’s Bermuda-born wife."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "harriet". https://gw.geneanet.org/tinagaquer?lang=en&n=palmer&oc=0&p=harriet. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
