Editing Jane Austen (section)

===Chawton===
[[File:Jane Austen house museum 7.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Cottage in [[Chawton]], Hampshire where Austen lived during her last eight years of life, now [[Jane Austen's House Museum]]]]

Around early 1809, Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life—the use of a large cottage in [[Chawton]] village{{efn|Chawton had a population of 417 at the census of 1811.<ref>Collins (1994), 89.</ref>}} which was part of the estate around Edward's nearby property [[Chawton House]]. Jane, Cassandra and their mother moved into [[Chawton Cottage|Chawton cottage]] on 7 July 1809.<ref>Le Faye (2014), xxii; Tomalin (1997), 194–206; Honan (1987), 237–245; MacDonagh (1991), 49.</ref> Life was quieter in Chawton than it had been since the family's move to Bath in 1800. The Austens did not socialise with [[gentry]] and entertained only when family visited. Her niece Anna described the family's life in Chawton as "a very quiet life, according to our ideas, but they were great readers, and besides the housekeeping our aunts occupied themselves in working with the poor and in teaching some girl or boy to read or write."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grey|first1=J. David|last2=Litz|first2=A. Waton|last3=Southam|first3=B. C.|last4=Bok|first4=H.Abigail|title=The Jane Austen companion|url=https://archive.org/details/janeaustencompan00grey|url-access=registration|date=1986|publisher=Macmillan|page=[https://archive.org/details/janeaustencompan00grey/page/38 38]|isbn=9780025455405}}</ref><!-- reformat ref to be consistent - needs chapter title -->