[2] She came close to marrying the strait-laced Christian John Plumptre, whom she ultimately rejected partly on advice from her aunt Jane, who told her only to prolong the relationship if she was sure she loved him.
[3] At the age of 27, Fanny Knight married Sir Edward Knatchbull, a baronet, widowed with six children from his first marriage.
He was twelve years older than her; besides his title, he was a recently elected MP and the owner of the Mersham Hatch estate in Kent.
Following his death, Lady Knatchbull lived at Provender House in Faversham, Kent, a property her husband had inherited from his mother.
[7] As she aged, she began to suffer from memory loss and was unable to find documents she had inherited, including some of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra, who had died in 1845.