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Missing Monuments Murders

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Informationen zum Autor Judy Stove is an academic based at the University of New South Wales! a role she balances with working in school administration. After studying classics at the University of Sydney! she worked for the Australian Commonwealth Departments of Defence and Finance. She is married with two adult sons! and is an active member of the Jane Austen Society of Australia. Klappentext A veiled story of power, wealth, dark deeds and intrigue. In 1806, Jane Austen's relative, the Reverend Thomas Leigh, came into vast estates and the mood in the extended Leigh/Austen family was jubilant. But within a few years, bizarre events were the talk of the district: the removal and destruction of monuments in the village church, cheating, blackmail, and the eviction of tenants who dared speak of events. It would even be alleged that the family engaged in murder to protect their inheritance.Judy Stove's painstaking research pieces together for the first time in detail the full story, in which whistle blower Charles Griffin, a local solicitor, ended up in gaol. Whether scandal-mongering or clever and powerful suppression at a time when criminal investigations were all but non-existent, the truth remains a mystery. One that touched on Austen's own world and in which connections not just to the great and the good but to some of her characters, plots and personal life unfold. Zusammenfassung A largely hidden story of power! wealth! and allegations of attempts to re-write history in the pursuit of a vast inheritance! linked to Jane Austen's own family.

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Authors Judy Stove
Publisher Waterside Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 14.09.2016
 
EAN 9781909976245
ISBN 978-1-909976-24-5
No. of pages 288
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies
Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries

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