id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-131 Jane Austen - Wikipedia .html text/html 15082 1592 74 According to Honan, the atmosphere of the Austen home was an "open, amused, easy intellectual" one, where the ideas of those with whom the Austens might disagree politically or socially were considered and discussed.[29] The family relied on the patronage of their kin and hosted visits from numerous family members.[30] Cassandra Austen spent the summer of 1770 in London with George's sister, Philadelphia, and her daughter Eliza, accompanied by his other sister, Mrs Walter and her daughter Philly.[31][f] Philadelphia and Eliza Hancock were, according to Le Faye, "the bright comets flashing into an otherwise placid solar system of clerical life in rural Hampshire, and the news of their foreign travels and fashionable London life, together with their sudden descents upon the Steventon household in between times, all helped to widen Jane's youthful horizon and influence her later life and works."[32] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-131.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-131.txt