May, Lou and Cass Hillan Sophia
May, Lou and Cass Hillan Sophia Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight May, Lou and Cass were Jane Austen s nieces. Often the subjects of her witty letters, they were still young girls when Jane died…
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May, Lou and Cass Hillan Sophia
Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight May, Lou and Cass were Jane Austen s nieces. Often the subjects of her witty letters, they were still young girls when Jane died in 1817. She knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up.
Handsome noblemen, dashing officers and penurious clergymen sought her nieces hands; just like Austen s cherished heroines, they knew well the pains of blighted love and the joy of patience rewarded and they also knew the sorrow of losing their childhood home. Yet, had she lived, she would have seen them live out the plots of her famous novels. Yet even Jane Austen could not have imagined that her genteel nieces would find themselves in Ireland, a land riven with famine and land wars.
How did these three young gentlewomen come to end their lives so far from Jane Austen s ordered, mannered Regency