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Harris Bigg-Wither

Harris

Catherine and Alethea's brother and heir to Manydown Park; he proposed marriage to Jane in December 1802, was accepted, and was refused again the following morning -- an episode this edition's surviving letters do not themselves narrate, falling as it does in a gap Cassandra's editing left in the correspondence.

Mentioned in 3 works (11 mentions)

To Cassandra, Steventon, 21 January 1799 letter · 1 mention
To Cassandra, Steventon, 25 October 1800 letter · 1 mention
Sense and Sensibility Novels · 9 mentions