Philadelphia Austen Hancock
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Philadelphia Austen Hancock was an English socialite and the aunt of Jane Austen. Throughout her life, rumours circulated in India and England that she was the mistress of Warren Hastings, who was the
Portrait of Hancock (right) with her family and maid
Cassandra Austen Jane Austen hires
Warren Hastings
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Warren Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William, the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general o
Philadelphia Austen Hancock
…1792) was an English socialite and the aunt of Jane Austen. Throughout her life, rumours circulated in India and England that she was the mistress of Warren Hastings, who was the godfather and suspected father of her daughter, Eliza de Feuillide. Hancock was born Philadelphia Austen on 15 May 1730 into a family that…
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1766–1767
c. 1784 painting of Hastings with Marian in their garden at Alipore by Johan Zoffany
Portrait of Hastings by Tilly Kettle
The trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall, 1788