Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Jane Austen across 6 places, from 1775 to 1817.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Jane Austen is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Jane Austen was documented, and when
16 December 1775exact date
Steventon, Hampshireattested“Modern biographers include details excised from the letters and family biographies, but the biographer Jan Fergus writes that the challenge is to keep the view balanced, not to present her languishing in periods of deep unhappiness as "a…”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
1781year
Bath, Somersetattested“Philadelphia and Eliza Hancock were, according to Le Faye, "the bright comets flashing into an otherwise placid solar system of clerical life in rural Hampshire, and the news of their foreign travels and fashionable London life, together…”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
December 1800month
Bath, Somersetattested“In December 1800 George Austen unexpectedly announced his decision to retire from the ministry, leave Steventon, and move the family to 4, Sydney Place in Bath, Somerset.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
1804year
Bath, Somersetattested“In 1804, while living in Bath, Austen started, but did not complete, her novel The Watsons.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
1806year
Southamptonattested“In 1806, the family moved to Southampton, where they shared a house with Frank Austen and his new wife.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
5 April 1809exact date
Chawtonattested“On 5 April 1809, about three months before the family's move to Chawton, Austen wrote an angry letter to Richard Crosby, offering him a new manuscript of Susan if needed to secure the immediate publication of the novel, and requesting th…”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
December 1815month
Londonattested“In mid-1815 Austen moved her work from Egerton to John Murray, a better-known publisher in London, who published Emma in December 1815 and a second edition of Mansfield Park in February 1816.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
18 July 1817exact date
Winchesterattested“Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817 at the age of 41.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
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In each of these, a source puts Jane Austen and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Jane Austen was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1783year
Oxfordmentioned“In 1783 Austen and her sister Cassandra were sent to Oxford to be educated by Ann Cawley, who took them to Southampton later that year.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
1783year
Southamptonmentioned“In 1783 Austen and her sister Cassandra were sent to Oxford to be educated by Ann Cawley, who took them to Southampton later that year.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
1785year
Reading Abbey Girls' Schoolmentioned“She was from then home-educated, until she attended boarding school with her sister from early in 1785 at the Reading Abbey Girls' School, ruled by Mrs La Tournelle.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
November 1797month
Londonmentioned“At this time, her father made the first attempt to publish one of her novels; in November 1797 he wrote to Thomas Cadell, an established publisher in London, to ask if he would consider publishing First Impressions.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
1800year
Chawtonmentioned“Life was quieter in Chawton than it had been since the family's move to Bath in 1800.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
June 1805month
Bath, Somersetmentioned“They spent part of the time in rented quarters in Bath before leaving the city in June 1805 for a family visit to Steventon and Godmersham.”source: Wikipedia: Jane Austen
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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