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Henry Thomas Austen (8 June 1771 – 12 March 1850) was a British militia officer, clergyman, banker and the brother of the novelist Jane Austen. He died in 1850 and was buried in Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells.
6 de oct. de 2009 · Henry Thomas Austen was Jane’s favorite brother and the most instrumental influence upon furthering her writing career. Literature owes a debt of gratitude to him far greater than can be every repaid.
Henry Thomas Austen, the fourth son of George and Cassandra, was born in Steventon in June, 1771.
Of her brothers, Jane felt closest to Henry, who became a soldier, then a banker, then (after his bank failed) an Anglican clergyman. Henry was also his sister's literary agent .
Looser descubrió que el reverendo Henry Thomas Austen, hermano de la autora Jane Austen, asistió a la Convención Mundial Contra la Esclavitud en Londres en 1840. Looser calificó a Henry como “un Austen de la siguiente generación” por apoyar públicamente la abolición de la esclavitud. (Deanna Dent/ASU via AP)
14 de jun. de 2021 · One of Looser’s most significant findings is that Jane Austen’s brother, Henry Thomas Austen, was a delegate to an anti-slavery convention in London in 1840.
Henry Austen, working on a burgeoning banking career on his own with help from his brother’s investing, doubled as Jane’s literary agent and approached London publisher Thomas Egerton with the manuscript for Sense & Sensibility. Egerton agreed to publish the piece and fulfilled his end of the deal.
