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Thomas Fowle, the fiancé of Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra, has died overseas. In May, their cousin Eliza describes the family’s grief. In December she passes on a rumour that Cassandra is to marry, while noting that Jane has said nothing of it. The rumour is not evidence of a second engagement. These are extracts from two letters to Philadelphia Walter.
This is a very severe stroke to the whole family, and particularly to poor Cassandra, for whom I feel more than I can express. Indeed I am most sincerely grieved at this event, and the pain which it must occasion our worthy relations. Jane says that her sister behaves with a degree of resolution and propriety which no common mind could evince in so trying a situation.
Extract from Life and Letters (1913), p. 105.
who is still at Bath with her mother and sister. Mr. Hampson, whom I saw yesterday . . . told me he had heard Cassandra was going to be married, but Jane says not a word of it.
Extract from Life and Letters (1913), p. 106.