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Jane Cooper

also: Miss Cooper

Jane Austen's first cousin (daughter of Mrs Austen's sister Jane Leigh Cooper), orphaned of her mother in the 1783 Southampton fever outbreak that nearly killed Jane and Cassandra too; this piece is dedicated to her. She married Captain Thomas Williams in December 1792, the same year this piece is dated, and died in a carriage accident in 1798.

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A Collection of Letters Juvenilia · 1 mention