Lord George Hill by Richard James Lane (D22025) © National Portrait Gallery, London
‘Lord George Hill, Memorial Plaque’ from Bunbeg Church, Donegal, reproduced by kind permission of Brendan Meegan
Louisa Hill, c.1860 (daguerreotype), reproduced with thanks to Jane Austen’s House Museum, Jane Austen Memorial Trust
Marianne Knight, c.1880, by an unknown artist, reproduced with thanks to Jane Austen’s House Museum, Jane Austen Memorial Trust
Marianne Knight and Louisa Hill – Gravestones, Tully, Donegal, reproduced by kind permission of Kevin McLean
‘Marianne Knight’s letter to Montagu Knight’, 22 July 1885, Hampshire Record Office: 39M89/F32/6, reproduced with thanks to Hampshire Record Office
‘Marianne Knight’s review of Gweedore Hotel’, 1890, from the Gweedore Hotel Book
Mr Montagu G. Knight, D.L., J.P., sourced from Hampshire at the Opening of the Twentieth Century (W.T. Pike and Co, 1905), Hampshire Record Office: 920, reproduced with thanks to Hampshire Record Office
New Mill, Bunbeg, Day and Haghe lithographers, from a sketch by Lady Harriet Clive. Sourced from Lord George Hill, Facts from Gweedore (1845).Thanks to Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and Tony McHugh of Comharchumann Fordartha, Derrybeg.
Norah Ward, 1887, by H. Christabelle Deanes, reproduced with thanks to Lord and Lady Dunleath
Rev. Charles Bridges Knight, sourced from Akin to Jane, ed. Joan Corder (Private circulation, 1953), reproduced with thanks to Jane Austen’s House Museum, Jane Austen Memorial Trust
‘Silhouette of Marianne, Louisa and Cassandra Knight’, c.1829, author unknown, with thanks to Jane Austen’s House Museum, Jane Austen Memorial Trust
‘Silhouette of the Knight and Austen Family’, William Wellings, a silhouette portrait of the Knight family and the Austen family playing chess, signed C. Welling fecit 1783, Chawton House Library
Somerset Ward, 1887, by H. Christabelle Deanes, reproduced with thanks to Lord and Lady Dunleath
Sophia Hillan, author photograph, 2004 © Bobbie Hanvey, reproduced with thanks to Bobbie Hanvey
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Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Imprint Information
About Sophia Hillan
Dedication
‘... the Manners there’
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Daughters of the House
Chapter 1: ‘Everybody is Rich There’
Chapter 2: ‘Goodbye from the Cowhouse’
Chapter 3: ‘No Money – All Charms’
Chapter 4: ‘Wintering in England’
Chapter 5: ‘The Manners There’
Chapter 6: ‘Our Lost Home’
Chapter 7: ‘I Can’t Live by Myself’
Chapter 8: ‘The Fashion to be Poor’
Postscript: A New Century
List of Abbreviations
Timeline
Bibliography
Notes
Notes: Introduction
Notes: Chapter 1
Notes: Chapter 2
Notes: Chapter 3
Notes: Chapter 4
Notes: Chapter 5
Notes: Chapter 6
Notes: Chapter 7
Notes: Chapter 8
Notes: Postscript
Picture Acknowledgements
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