Scarletts
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Scarletts is an English manor house, built in 1760, that survives to the present day.[1] It is a Grade II listed property. The house is known for its association with the family of author Jane Austen.
The house was built by James Leigh-Perrot, maternal uncle to Jane, and her siblings, and his wife Jane Leigh-Perrot.[2] Jane Leigh-Perrot was Frank Austen's godmother, and she had planned to leave Scarletts to him.[3] But, in 1828, he re-married a family friend, to provide a mother figure to the seven children he had, who were under the age of sixteen, and his aunt disapproved. She left the estate to his nephew James-Edward Austen, the son of his eldest brother James Austen.
References
- ↑ "Interest Revived In Scarletts Manor House". janeausten.co.uk. https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/landscape-and-property/interest-revived-in-scarletts-manor-house. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
- ↑ Ellen Moody. "The Life and Crimes of Jane Leigh-Perrot". janeausten.co.uk. https://janeausten.co.uk/blogs/extended-reading/the-life-and-crimes-of-jane-leigh-perrot. Retrieved 2022-01-27. "Upon the death of Mrs. Leigh-Perrot in 1836, Scarlets and the majority of her fortune was left to Jane Austen's own nephew, who then took on the name of his Aunt and Uncle becoming James Edward Austen Leigh. JEAL, as he is often called, was the first to write a biography of his famous Aunt, Jane Austen."
- ↑ Zöe Wheddon (2021). "Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd". Pen and Sword History. ISBN 9781526763822. https://books.google.ca/books?id=LP0hEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=zoe+wheddon&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRobHv2dL1AhWRmGoFHV8wAiAQ6AF6BAgZEAI#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
