I learned that Caroline Jane Knight (Jane Austen's Fifth-Great Niece) has started the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation to support literacy around the world. You can check out their website here: https://janeaustenlf.org/
You can also join the community for free: https://janeaustenlf.org/community
Caroline helped me understand that Jane's older brother, Edward, inherited the Knight estate without the type of formal adoption that we have today. When he inherited, he changed his name from Austen to Knight but continued his close family relationship with his Austen family. He spent part of the year at his Chawton Estate, where his mother and sisters lived in a cottage nearby.
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