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Denise used the Borders gift card that Megen gave her for Mother's Day to buy the DVD "Becoming Jane," which we watched last night. It's a nice little fiction about Jane Austen, casting her early life in the style of one of her books and taking a large amount of liberty with the facts. Still, an enjoyable film...
And it got me to googling Austen's life to see exactly how much liberty they took with the facts.... and it was in doing so that I stumbled on this
According the Britannia.com, , Jane's mother was Cassandra Leigh, of the "Leighs of Stonehill Abbey in Warwickshire." Huh. Now, while the maternal lines of the Leigh family (the Coens, Langs, and Farrells) go back to Ireland and Germany, we haven't been able to trace back the paternal Leighs to their country of origin, but the chances are extremely high that those bearing the "Leigh" name are English.
So hey, I might just be related to Jane Austen. It's possible...
Just in case, I'm going to immediately re-name A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT. From now on, it's MAGIC AND MACHINATIONS. After all, it's a novel of manners, concerning movements within a stratified society...
And it got me to googling Austen's life to see exactly how much liberty they took with the facts.... and it was in doing so that I stumbled on this
According the Britannia.com, , Jane's mother was Cassandra Leigh, of the "Leighs of Stonehill Abbey in Warwickshire." Huh. Now, while the maternal lines of the Leigh family (the Coens, Langs, and Farrells) go back to Ireland and Germany, we haven't been able to trace back the paternal Leighs to their country of origin, but the chances are extremely high that those bearing the "Leigh" name are English.
So hey, I might just be related to Jane Austen. It's possible...
Just in case, I'm going to immediately re-name A MAGIC OF TWILIGHT. From now on, it's MAGIC AND MACHINATIONS. After all, it's a novel of manners, concerning movements within a stratified society...