New Book - Jane Austen At Home by Lucy Worsley (Pages 1 - 20)

 First Published: 2017

This is a book about Jane Austen and her personal life.

Stevenson Rectory in Hampshire was the home where her parents moved before Jane Austen was born. Steventon is a village and a civil parish with a population of about 250 in north Hampshire. Steventon is best known as the birthplace of the author Jane Austen, who lived there from 1775 to 1801.

George and Cassandra Austen were Jane's parents. 

George Austen (1731 – 21 January 1805) was a cleric of the Church of England, rector of Deane and Steventon in Hampshire. Austen met Cassandra Leigh while he was a student at Oxford. They married on 26 April 1764 and began their married life living in the rectory at Deane; in 1771 they moved to Steventon Parsonage.

The book mentions tithes, some tax collected by the rector from his parishioners. A tithe  is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government.

Jane Austen was born in 1775. Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire, on 16 December 1775 in a harsh winter. Her father wrote of her arrival in a letter that her mother "certainly expected to have been brought to bed a month ago"