Aubrey Thomas de Vere was born on 10 January 1814 at Curragh Chase, the family estate near Adare in County Limerick, Ireland, and died there on 20 January 1902, ten days after his eighty-eighth birthday. He belonged to a world of inherited land, cultivated learning, Protestant Ascendancy privilege, and literary ambition, yet much of his life was spent interrogating the moral assumptions of that world. In the course o…
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Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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Jane Austen
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Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, into a family whose modest circumstances, intellectual liveliness, and close emotional bonds supplied the material conditions for an extraordinary literary education. She was the seventh of eight children born to the Reverend George Austen and Cassandra Leigh Austen. Her father was rector of the parishes of Steventon and Deane; her mother came from the…
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In time
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Jane Austen
1775
1902
They overlapped for 4 years (1814–1817).
When Aubrey Thomas de Vere was born, Jane Austen was about 39.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere was about 3 when Jane Austen died.
On the map
About 546 km separate Curragh Chase, County Limerick, Ireland from Steventon, Hampshire, England. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Themes they return to
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
Shared
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From the biographies
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Aubrey Thomas de Vere: curragh chase, county limerick, protestant ascendancy, william wordsworth, john henry newman, the waldenses, the search after proserpine, great famine. Jane Austen: steventon, hampshire, cassandra austen, sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice, northanger abbey, tom lefroy, harris bigg-wither.
Poems that secretly rhyme
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
The world around them
While their lives overlapped
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
1815
Battle of Waterloo
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Jane Austen
Emotional landscapes
Aubrey Thomas de Vere: Spirituality, Peace, Sorrow. Jane Austen: Irony, Sorrow, Longing.