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Publication History
The story was originally published as 'The Tale of the Land of Green Ginger' by Arthur Baker in 1937.

It was rewritten and expanded in 1966.

It was further revised, and shortened, and published in 1975.



 'Fanny Knight' (1793 - 1882) is a niece of the novelist Jane Austen. With Anna Austen, it was probably the favorite niece of Jane Austen (who had 24 nieces and nephews).

The remaining letters of his correspondence with his aunt are an important source of Jane Austen, by the degree of privacy they testify. Later became Lady Knatchbull, Fanny Knight can not help but show a little bit of light that showed the aristocratic disdain Knight face "scribbles" literary Jane Austen, and poor parent after a middle "poor".

This is Fanny Knight that are also inherited all letters of Jane Austen that still existed at the death of his sister Cassandra.

Biography == == Fanny Knight is the eldest daughter of Edward, brother of Jane Austen. Adopted by Thomas Knight II, a distant cousin of the Austen family, and his wife Catherine, who had no children, he had, on the death of the latter in 1812, abandoned in the name Austen Knight, for himself and his family.

Fanny's mother, Elizabeth Bridges, dies in childbirth in 1808 giving birth to her eleventh child. Fanny then tries to replace vis-à-vis his ten brothers and sisters. Later, in 1820, when it became the second wife of Sir Edward Knatchbull, she will find herself at the head of five children born of the first marriage of her husband, and she will be even nine.

Relationship with Jane Austen == == Jane Austen considered almost as a sister Fanny Knight ('' Almost like a sister ' 'by Jane Austen herself). Motherless, it also gives him the utmost confidence, and consult on the affairs of the heart, while begging not to share it with Cassandra, probably less forgiving.

Some correspondence between Jane Austen and her manner is often cited because they illustrate both the character of Fanny and that of Jane Austen. Particularly well known is the correspondence in 1814, when Mr John Plumtre demand the hand of Fanny. Jane Austen begins by extolling the qualities of the young man, very objective and rational, but it ends by saying:

However, Fanny Knight, although benefited by his aunt readings of each of his new novels, does not know recognize his talent at fair value, as the Knight family as a whole with suspicion literary activities of Jane Austen whose "scribbling" (scribbling) did not seem appropriate for someone of their rank.

She is also hated by the Janeite s for writing, while his marriage had made her Lady Knatchbull, that Jane Austen was "[...] well below the level required by the good society and his manners. " And adds that it was only through his own father, Edward Austen, his fortune and his relations above that her aunt had been saved "the mediocrity and lack of refinement. " These comments are collected by James Edward Austen-Leigh in 1869, when he prepares the publication his biography of his aunt, A Memoir of Jane Austen } } Fanny Knight, however, an important role in the knowledge of Jane Austen insofar as it is to her that were donated all the remaining letters of Jane Austen after the death of his sister Cassandra <= ref Name "jasna" />.

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Bibliography === ===
 * Jane Austen, Letters of Jane Austen ReadHowYouWant.com, 1994, ISBN 9781427026187
 * Jane Austen, Letters of Jane Austen ReadHowYouWant.com, 1994, ISBN 9781427026187
 * Jane Austen, Letters of Jane Austen ReadHowYouWant.com, 1994, ISBN 9781427026187

Related Articles === ===
 * Edward Austen
 * Jane Austen

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