Jane's Contemporaries
Austen's family
An Enlightening Letter: The Leigh Perrot Shoplifting Case
You likely know the story of how Jane Austen’s aunt, Jane Leigh Perrot, was falsely accused of stealing from a haberdashers in Bath and prosecuted at Taunton Assizes. It is thought that the accu...
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Family intrigue: A letter from Mrs A Foley to Jane Leigh Perrot
David Pugsley with another archival discovery relating to the Austens
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