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May 12, 1920.]   TRU [[cut off]]

Georgian house was built on the site of an older mansion in 1732-33, and the interior is finely decorated (much of the work by Adam), and is very handsome. The property will be offered next Tuesday in 53 lots.
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It has been supposed that Godmersham was Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.  The manor was owned for many centuries by the Brodnax family. Thomas Brodnax, builder of the house, changed his name to May on succeeding to a large estate in Hampshire, and took the name of Knight in 1738, when he inherited an estate in Sussex. His son Thomas, who died childless in 1794, left Godmersham to his cousin, Edward Austen, brother of Jane Austen, who assumed the name of Knight. His daughter married in 1820 Sir Edward Knatchbull, M.P., father of the first Lord Brabourne.