California’s Huntington Library has acquired 52 unpublished letters and poems from the family of the Pride and Prejudice author’s mother
A window into the life of Jane Austen’s mother’s family, the Leighs of Adlestrop, is promised by an unpublished collection of manuscripts which are set to “draw back the curtain on the formalities of society” in Regency England.
The Huntington Library in California has acquired 52 unpublished letters, poems and other material from six generations of the Leigh family. Austen’s mother was Cassandra Leigh, and the novelist visited her Leigh family in Adlestrop several times, with some believing that the setting of Mansfield Park is partly drawn from the Gloucestershire village.
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