Jane Austen: A New Revelation

by Nicholas Ennos

Was the author of Pride and Prejudice really a poor, uneducated woman with no experience of sex or marriage? A woman who spent most of her life in rural seclusion, never meeting any other literary figures, and whose only formal education was two years at a basic primary school? This is what biographers of Jane Austen expect us to believe. But, if this is the case, how could she have written those novels which are considered by many discriminating critics the finest in the English language? Nicholas Ennos shows that the real author was a woman who moved in the highest circles of London society, was educated in Latin and Greek and spoke fluent French. He reveals the author to be Jane Austen’s cousin and sister-in-law, Eliza de Feuillide, a married lady of the highest intellect whose ten year course of education was supervised by her famous father, a man at the very centre of the intellectual life of London.

The book traces Eliza’s exciting life, from her birth in Calcutta, India, to the court of Marie Antoinette, the execution of her first husband in the French Revolution and her connections to the leading literary figures of England and Germany, and reveals why the supposed novels of Jane Austen were so strongly influenced by those of Fanny Burney.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published October 22, 2013

About the author

Nicholas Ennos was educated at Hampton School and Leeds University, where he studied modern languages. He qualified as a solicitor, and lives in Surrey, a county which has close ties to Eliza de Feuillide, the true author of the novels of Jane Austen.

In his book "Jane Austen - A New Revelation" he uses his linguistic knowledge, legal analysis and local knowledge to explode the myth of Jane Austen and reveal for the first time the full background behind the composition of the world famous novels which bear her name.