“I have received a letter from Frank . . . he is in a great hurry to be married, & I have encouraged him in it.”
letter to Cassandra
August 24, 1805 [45]
Jane’s brother Frank was in the navy–a regular Horatio Hornblower–he married Mary Gibson of Ramsgate the following July. They had been engaged since 1804, but waited until he won a little more prize money to marry. They had eleven children before Mary died.
Image from the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. See their Austen family info.
