ABSTRACT
austen, cassandra, 1739–1827. Jane Austen's mother. A member of the family of Leigh of Adlestrop, Gloucestershire. Her grandfather was brother-in-law to the Duke of Chandos, whose mansion of Canons is probably satirized by Pope as Timon's Villa (Moral Essays: Epistle to Burlington). Her uncle was a famous Master of Balliol and her father a Fellow of All Souls. Among her ancestors, one sheltered Charles I in 1642; hence perhaps Jane Austen's early Stuart sympathies. She married George Austen at Walcot Church, Bath, in 1760.
