Captain Corbet James D’Auvergne could lay claim to knowing Jane Austen. The authoress mentions him in two letters to her sister Cassandra. Read more about Captain D’Auvergne connection to Jane Austen, and his achievements as Acting Governor of a tiny island in the North Sea called Heligoland. After a ball at the Dolphin Hotel in … Continue reading Jane Austen, the Captain and the Smugglers of a Tiny Island