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Jane Austen family link to abolition movement comes to light
LYNN ELBER, Associated Press
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This April 10, 2018 image released by Arizona State University shows ASU professor Devoney Looser at her home in Phoenix, Ariz. Looser unearthed Rev. Henry Thomas Austen’s attendance at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Austen is the brother of “Pride and Prejudice” author Jane Austen. Looser calls him a “a next-generation Austen” publicly supporting abolition. (Deanna Dent/ASU via AP)Deanna Dent/AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) While Jane Austen admirers savor the wit and romance of “Pride and Prejudice” and her other enduring novels, scholars ferret out details of Austen’s life and times, including a family link to slavery that surfaced 50 years ago.
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