Editing Chevening (section)

==Literary connections==
The poet Robert Selby was a longstanding resident of the Chevening area. His poetry collection ''The Coming-Down Time'' (Shoestring Press, 2020)<ref>[https://thescores.org.uk/neilson-on-selby/ The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby – The Scores<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> includes a sequence entitled 'Chevening', partially set in the grounds of Chevening House and in St Botolph's church opposite.

It has sometimes been suggested that Chevening served [[Jane Austen]] as a model for Rosings Park in her novel ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', but the only established fact that links the novelist with Chevening is that the Revd John Austen, her second cousin and grandson of the solicitor Francis Austen, who lived in the Red House, Sevenoaks, became Rector of Chevening in 1813, the novel having been published in that January.<ref name=":0">{{Citation | url = http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number11/halperin.htm | title = Inside Pride and Prejudice | last =Halperin |first =John |date=1989 | newspaper =Persuasions | issue = 11 |publisher=Jane Austen Society of North America | access-date = 9 December 2018}}</ref> However, it was written from October 1796 to August 1797. John Halperin also relates that Francis Austen, an uncle of Jane Austen's father, was solicitor to the owners of Chevening during the latter third of the 18th-century; that Francis Austen owned property in the area, and that Jane Austen visited him and relatives in Kent several times between 1792 and 1796.<ref name=":0" />