The girls’ formal education was sporadic. When Jane was seven, she and Cassandra were sent, with their cousin Jane Cooper, toOxfordto study with Mrs. Anne Cawley. Not long after their arrival inOxford, Mrs. Cawley took the girls on an outing to Southampton, Cassandra Leigh Austen, was of higher social standing than George Austen, and only his education and prestige as a clergyman made the courtship possible. The Austen’s 1st home was the rectory of St. Nicolas’s Church in Seventon. The reverend’s income was meager for a family of ten, but the Austens’ prestige in the village was higher than income alone could dictate, and they lived comfortably. The family was close and the children especially dear to one another. where all three contracted typhus. Austen was subsequently educated at home, until leaving for boarding school with her sister Cassandra early in 1785. By December 1786, Jane and Cassandra had returned home because the Austens could not afford to send both of their daughters to school.
Austen acquired the remainder of her education by reading books, guided by her father and her brothers James and Henry. George Austen apparently gave his daughters unfettered access to his large and varied library, was tolerant of Austen's experiments in writing, and provided both sisters with expensive paper and other materials for their writing and drawing. According to Park Honan, a biographer of Austen, life in the Austen home was lived in “an open, amused, easy intellectual atmosphere” where the ideas of those with whom the Austens might disagree politically or socially were considered and discussed. After returning from school in 1786, Austen “never again lived anywhere beyond the bounds of her immediate family environment”. Private theatricals were also a part of Austen's education. From when she was seven until she was thirteen, Cassandra Leigh Austen, was of higher social standing than George Austen, and only his education and prestige as a clergyman made the courtship possible. The Austen’s 1st home was the rectory of St. Nicolas’s Church in Seventon. The reverend’s income was meager for a family of ten, but the Austens’ prestige in the village was higher than income alone could dictate, and they lived comfortably. The family was close and the children especially dear to one another. the family and close friends staged a series of plays, including Richard Sheridan's The Rivals (1775) and David Garrick's Bon Ton. While the details are unknown, Austen would certainly have joined in these activities, as a spectator at first and as a participant when she was older. Most of the plays were comedies, which suggest one way in which Austen's comedic and satirical gifts were cultivated.
2.2 Jane Austens Love and Marriage
In 1795, Austen, who was now twenty years old, fell in love with Thomas Lefroy, a
