7/1/2023 0 Comments Deirdre le faye![]() ![]() Using papers in the attic of these Austen-Leigh heirs, over the course of five years of weekends, while working full time at the British Museum, she updated and rewrote Jane Austen: A Family Record (1989). An interest in Jane Austen was rekindled, which led to her making contact with Austen family descendants living near Winchester. She became a member of the Camden History Society and began to research graves and inscriptions. It was while working there that she began to join archaeological digs on weekends and holidays, as a way to take inexpensive vacations. ![]() She began work as an administrative assistant for the Department of Medieval & Later Antiquities at the British Museum. ![]() After her father died of illness, she left school at 16 and began a secretarial course as a scholarship student. She was born in Bournemouth and raised in Farnborough and Reading, during the bombing raids of the Second World War. Deirdre Le Faye (26 October 1933 – 16 August 2020) was an English writer and literary critic. ![]()
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