Frank and his family often visited there and also stayed at Chawton House, the much grander place along the road that belonged to the lucky brother, Edward, who inherited a fortune. For the book, it will be a little like going home. I'm going to give the Tristram Shandy to Jane Austen's House Museum in Chawton, Hampshire. My great-aunt kept little toys for visiting children in a box he made.
Captain Harville in Persuasion must have been inspired by him.
He loved carving and woodturning so probably took a great interest in his bookcases. I imagine him reading them and this copy of Tristram Shandy at sea. It's very small, a good size for a voyage. There's a real treasure, an 1817 edition of Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Stern. Now I have this beautiful bookcase to house them all.Īfter my cousin leaves I unpack the books. I have already inherited hundreds of books from my great-aunts in Winchester, including some owned by my great-grandmother, Edith Hubback, also a writer. I can't believe my luck in being given this bookcase. My cousin and I are just two of the hundreds of Austen descendants. He was Jane Austen's brother, Frank, a sailor who served during the Napoleonic Wars, was knighted and became Admiral of the Fleet. "Family stories seemed to circle like swallows, swooping and diving and sometimes drifting away." Credit: Stock Montage
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