As it was the Christmas season, balls were held frequently and Jane and this young student from Ireland met often and danced often. Jane was a family name I believe for both the Lefroys and for his wife's family, so I'm not sure if that means anything. I dont know exactly why tom named his daughter jane, maybe to think of her more or maybe to think of her less. Austen wrote on many subjects: women’s lack of freedom, the injuries wrought by the 19A lot of Austen fans seem to want what the characters in Karen Joy Fowler’s novel You’ve run out of free articles. They loved each other all their lives.I've been reading through the comments and wanted to respond to a few of them.I’m sorry I was his biggest mistake while he was the BEST thing to ever happen to me.Two years in marriage with my Husband with a kid, my husband started going out with other ladies and showed me cold love, on several occasions he threatens to divorce me if I dare question him about his affair with other women, I was totally devastated and confused until a friend told me about a spell caster who help people with their relationship and marriage problem by the powers of love spells, at first I doubted if such thing ever exists but decided to give it a try, when I contact Dr Mack and told him my problem, he helped me cast a love spell and after 24hours my husband came back to me and started apologizing and ever since the spell cast, he has stopped going out with ladies and he is with me for good and for real. Someone else wrote Becoming Jane. Then my own life (which is quite good) seems so flat. I really love the story of Jane and Tom as the movie tells it, but of course that's a little too much. Yes -- or going through emails. I am almost thirty years old. Austen's surviving correspondence contains only one other mention of Tom Lefroy, in a November 1798 letter that Austen biographer Claire Tomalin believes demonstrates the author's "bleak remembrance, and persistent interest"Upon learning of Jane Austen's death (18 July 1817), Thomas Langlois Lefroy travelled from Ireland to England to pay his respects to the British author.I enclose a copy of Mr. Austen's letter to Cadell—I do not know which novel he would have sent—The letter does not do much credit to the tact or courtesy of our good Grandfather for Cadell was a great man in his day, and it is not surprising that he should have refused the favour so offered from an unknown—but the circumstance may be worth noting, especially as we have so few incidents to produce. It is an impression of one and that is NEVER the same as TRUTH. Mr. Tom Lefroy’s birthday was yesterday, so … The very next letter that she wrote to Cassandra (August, 1796) is dated from Cork Street, London, where Tom lived with his uncle Benjamin. In my opinion 'Wuthering Heights' is possibly the most passionate book in the English language, it is a novel that describes an addictive relationship which deeply damages both parties involved and the consequences move on down to the next generation.

Both Emily Bronte and Jane Austen had both. And I do not believe that Tom was marrying another woman because it loved her (we know all for that he married) Under my point of view I believe that Jane always looked for something of Tom Lefroy in other men and on not having found it it she remained alone, sometimes the destination is hard and cruel and separates us from the dear person, the good thing is that this one will not be able to change your feelings unless you want. Interesting that they mentioned the novel "Tom Jones", one of my favorite movies from long ago. It just makes me so upset and makes me think that I'll be alone for the rest of my life too:SIt is difficult to know what spent, in the epoch, for little information that exists, and because it is impossible to know what they were thinking. It's really so unfair.

Tom Lefroy. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker.By joining Slate Plus you support our work and get exclusive content. I saw the movie a year ago and have been intrigued by the idea of Jane and Tom ever since. It allways happen to me when i watch theese kind of films. for gabriella - yes, I know exactly, what you are talking about. not in a depressing way. Nevertheless, the film Other scholars have been more skeptical than Spence about whether this pair were ever “a couple.” They see a flirtation that terminated without fuss when Tom ended his visit to relations in the Hampshire countryside where Jane lived and returned to the London law courts.