Return to Jane Austen info page Return to Jane Austen's writings See also the Genealogical Charts for Pride and Prejudice And the Genealogical Charts for Mansfield Park And the Genealogical Charts for Emma And the Genealogical Charts for Persuasion And the Genealogical charts for Jane Austen's own family Ferrars and DashwoodsIndividuals who are dead by the end of the first chapter are parenthesized. +------------+-----------+ | | | (Old Mr. | | Dashwood) (Sister) (Brother) ELDEST SON | | | Mrs. Ferrars (First === (Mr. Henry === Mrs. Dashwood | wife) | Dashwood) | | | | +---+--------+--------+ | +----+---+---------+ | | | John | | | Edward Robert Fanny === Dashwood Elinor Marianne Margaret Ferrars Ferrars | ELDEST SON | | Harry Middletons and SteelesMrs. Jennings and the Steeles are cousins; as are Mrs. Dashwood and Sir John Middleton Mrs. Jennings | | +------+ +-----+------+ | | | | | Mr. Pratt Thomas === Charlotte Mary, Lady === Sir John | Palmer | Middleton | Middleton +----+-------+ | | | | | +---+---+---+ Anne "Nancy" Lucy | | | | | Steele Steele son John, William, Annamaria, etc. Brandons, Willoughby, etc.Individuals who have died before the main action of the novel are again parenthesized, while "~~~" indicates an illicit liason. Colonel Brandon's elder brother and the first Eliza Williams were divorced; she was a close relative of the Brandons. Mrs. Smith is Willoughby's cousin. (Old Mr. Brandon) | +-------+--------+ | | | Colonel Sister (Brother) === (Eliza ~~~ "First Brandon ELDEST SON Williams) | Seducer" | | Eliza ~~~ John === Sophia Grey Williams | Willoughby | | child Note that the amount of money that Col. Brandon has charitably doled out for the upkeep of the younger Eliza Williams is actually probably much less than the amount of money which flowed into the Brandon family upon his elder brother's marriage with the elder Eliza Williams (and which Col. Brandon inherited after his father and brother died). (Here I have assumed that the younger Eliza took her surname from her mother's maiden name, something which is not explicitly stated in the book, but which most of Jane Austen's original readers probably also would have assumed, in the absence of any more specific information.) Return to Jane Austen info page table of contents Return to Jane Austen's writings
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