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Article: Sydney Smith, Jane Austen, and Henry Tilney.(Miscellany)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
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- January 1, 2002
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WHEN JANE AUSTEN WAS JUST THREE YEARS OLD, two brothers, quite unknown to her family, crossed Salisbury Plain to visit an heiress, with a view to marriage. The elder of the two brothers, the prospective bridegroom, was an Oxford graduate and heir to a baronetcy; the younger brother was a vigorous, handsome charmer, about to enter Oxford. As is the way with these things, the heiress promptly fell in love with the penniless younger brother. They were married the following year, 1779, in the little Saxon church at the bottom of the garden of Netheravon House, Wiltshire, home of the bride, Henrietta Maria Beach. The bridegroom, Michael Hicks, described himself, in his courting ...
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