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What Jane Austen really looked like !
Not so much a detective, more an informer, I write, having a personal interest in this The Tonbridge Kent Reading Detectives first case. My father, Richard James Wheeler, a longtime local resident, first discovered then wrote a book about a new portrait of Jane Austen which he found here in Kent in an autographed Album once belonging to James Clarke, documented friend of Jane and Librarian to the Prince Regent. James Clarke himself was a student at Tonbridge School. We have placed detailed information on this rare portrait of Jane on a website for all to see. Go to www.artworksgallery.co.uk Obviously for full details you could read the book "James Stanier Clarke, his Watercolour Portrait of Jane Austen" ISBN 1900709023. It`s an amazing story. Another book "The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen" ISBN 1900709007 describes how each of the only three portraits of Austen in existence, although unsigned and untitled, do actually support each others claim to depict the Author.26 August 2009 from Simon Wheeler
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