Jane Austen, Cassandra Austen, Ann Crawley, and Jane Cooper black plaque — Report the wrong picture

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This black commemorative plaque records: JANE AUSTEN Author: 1775-1817 The Jane Austen Heritage Trail begins here. In the Spring of 1783, at the age of seven, Jane, her sister Cassandra and their cousin Jane Cooper, attended a school nearby run by Mrs Ann Crawley. The exact location of this school is unknown. An outbreak of Typhus closed the school after only a few weeks, and the girls returned home to Steventon, Jane's birthplace in the north of Hampshire. Recorded plaque organisation: City of Southampton.

Jane Austen was an influential English novelist known for her novels of manners that critiqued 18th- and early 19th-century British society; Cassandra Austen was Jane’s sister and confidante who survived Jane and played a role in shaping her literary legacy by managing the publication of some of her works posthumously; Ann Crawley ran a school attended briefly by Jane Austen, her sister Cassandra, and their cousin Jane Cooper in 1783.

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