Fanny Knight

Mm-hmm

... they're exactly the same archives that Jane and Fanny, that they were looking through.

Oh.

It's exactly the same material.

He's one of our most kind of prominent, uh, ancestors.

Mm-hmm.

And Fanny Knight writes in her diary about, and I'm paraphrasing here, I haven't got the exact quote.

But she writes in her diary, this is Jane's, uh, niece, Edward's el- eldest daughter, about basically what fun they're having looking through the family archives and learning about all of these characters.

And she was employed by Jane's rich brother, Edward Austin Knight, to teach Jane Austin's favourite niece.

Jane's favourite niece, out of all the 11 children Edward Austin Knight had, Jane and Cassandra were particularly fond of a little girl called Fanny Knight.

You know Mansfield Park? We get Fanny Price.

We've got Fanny Knight, the favourite niece.

And Anne Sharp was employed as her governess.

But after a while, Anne Sharp was actually sacked by Edward Austin Knight's wife, Elizabeth.

And you see this in her novels.

Let's talk about Anne Sharp again.