She completed the massive A Chronology of Jane Austen and her Family, 1600-2000, as well as a cookbook, an edition of Austen's cousin's letters ( Jane Austen’s ‘Outlandish Cousin’: the Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide), for a total of 12 monographs and edited books. Chapman's published collection of Jane Austen's letters twice, in 19. It was expanded, revised, and republished as A Family Record (2003), a factual biography of Austen. Using papers in the attic of these Austen-Leigh heirs, over the course of five years of weekends, while working full time at the British Museum, she updated and rewrote Jane Austen: A Family Record (1989). An interest in Jane Austen was rekindled, which led to her making contact with Austen family descendants living near Winchester. She became a member of the Camden History Society and began to research graves and inscriptions. It was while working there that she began to join archaeological digs on weekends and holidays, as a way to take inexpensive vacations. She began work as an administrative assistant for the Department of Medieval & Later Antiquities at the British Museum. After her father died of illness, she left school at 16 and began a secretarial course as a scholarship student. She was born in Bournemouth and raised in Farnborough and Reading, during the bombing raids of the Second World War. Deirdre Le Faye (26 October 1933 – 16 August 2020) was an English writer and literary critic.
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