Jane Austen’s aunt the Barbados Heiress

Jane (Jenny) Leigh Perrot, nee Cholmeley Whenever Jane Austen&rsquo;s links to enslavement are mentioned, it causes a furore, or if you will, a storm in a teacup sweetened by Caribbean sugar. But one story, with a lot more depth and drama has hitherto been largely overlooked: that of her aunt, Barbados heiress Jane Leigh Perrot, the wife of Mrs. Austen&rsquo;s brother James Leigh Perrot. When Jane…