‘Mischievous’ Jane Austen ‘Made Up’ Marriage Records

Novelist Jane Austen created fictitious entries in a marriage register linking herself with two separate men.

The Pride & Prejudice author is thought to have made the handwritten entries in the record book while a teenager in Hampshire in the late 18th Century. Hampshire Archives, which holds the Steventon marriage register for 1755-1812, says Austen had access to the book because her father, George Austen, was the rector of the parish.

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