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16. Juli 2011 · Januar 1796. Filmstills von Jane, Jane, Thomas Langlois LeFroy (1776-1869) war ein irischer Politiker und Richter, der schließlich in die Position des Obersten Richters Irlands aufstieg. Er war eines von 10 Kindern, die Oberst Anthony LeFroy von Limerick und Anne Gardiner geboren wurden.
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- Thomas Lefroy Was A Noted Politician.
- Lefroy Met Jane Austen During A Break from Studying Law.
- Lefroy Had A Good Heart and Was "Gentlemanlike" (though He Did Have One Flaw).
- James McAvoy Played Lefroy in Becoming Jane.
- Jane Austen Never Married, But Lefroy did.
- Lefroy Had An Interest in Astronomy.
- You Can Visit Lefroy's Grave.
Thomas Lefroy was born in Limerick, Ireland, on January 8, 1776 (one year after Austen) and died on May 4, 1869, at the very-old-for-his-time age of 93. (In comparison, Austen passed away in 1817 at the age of 41.) During his long life, Lefroy served as chief justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Ireland and as a member of Parliament (MP) for Du...
After graduating from Dublin's Trinity College in 1795, Lefroy moved to London to study law at Lincoln’s Inn. According to the Jane Austen Centre's website: "At some point, however, it was decided that [Lefroy] should take a break. Family history maintains that long nights poring over books had weakened his constitution and his eyesight. It was cle...
Tom’s great–uncle Benjamin Langlois funded Tom’s education at Trinity College in Dublin. Benjamin saidthis about his great-nephew: “A good heart, a good mind, good sense, and as little to correcting him as ever I saw in one of his age.” In a letter dated January 9, 1796, Austen wroteto her sister Cassandra about Tom: "He is a very gentlemanlike, go...
In Becoming Jane (2007), Julian Jarrold's big-screen adaptation of Jon Hunter Spence 2003's semi-biography Becoming Jane Austen, James McAvoyportrayed Lefroy opposite Anne Hathaway as Austen. The movie deviated from the book in having Lefroy and Austen fall in love and attempt—but fail—to run away and get married. In an interview with McAvoy, The T...
If Austen and Lefroy were so well suited to each other, why didn't they end up together? The general consensus is that Austen's lack of wealth played a part. But in 1799, Lefroy married Mary Paul, who did come from money. The couple had eight children; they named their second child, and first daughter, Jane. While Austenites would love to believe t...
On March 30, 1846, Lefroy visited Williams Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, to fiddle around with the Earl’s telescope. In a letterwritten to his wife the next day, Lefroy said of the experience: Lefroy spotted Jupiter, and seemed to be in awe of the instrument. “But the genius displayed in all the contrivances for wielding this mighty monster even surp...
If you're planning a trip to Ireland and want to pay your respects to Lefroy and the role he played in the creation of Pride and Prejudice, you can visit his grave; it’s located in Dublin, at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium. Mental Floss is partnering with the Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds® “15 Pages A Day” reading initiative to make s...
In his 2003 biography, Becoming Jane Austen, Jon Spence suggests that Jane Austen actually used her and Tom Lefroy's personalities as the models for Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, but not in an expected way. Spence suggests that Jane Austen used Tom Lefroy's more gregarious personality as the model for the novel's heroine Elizabeth ...
16. Juli 2011 · Jane Austen to Cassandra January 14, 1796. Film stills from Becoming Jane, Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776-1869 ) was an Irish Politician and judge, who eventually rose to the position of Chief Justice of Ireland. He was one of 10 children born to Colonel Anthony Lefroy of Limerick and Anne Gardiner.
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An online version of our autumn/winter exhibition, exploring Jane's relationship with the dashing young Irishman Tom Lefroy. This exhibition brings together for the very first time Tom's portrait with Jane's letter in which she declares 'I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy'.
8. Sept. 2022 · In the letter, written over two days in January 1796, Austen describes her excitement about an upcoming ball and some of the people she is to meet there, including the Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy.
Jane lernt den irischstämmigen Tom Lefroy (Thomas Langlois Lefroy) kennen, der Jurist werden will. Er kritisiert ihre schriftstellerischen Versuche und gibt ihr den Roman 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling' von Henry Fielding zum Lesen. Beide verlieben sich schließlich ineinander.
