A Memoir of Jane Austen (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Austen-Leigh, James Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440042233 ISBN 13: 9781440042232

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

A unt, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus seemed to call for it. In the present Edition, the narrative is somewhat enlarged, and a few more letters are added ;with a short specimen of her childish stories. The cancelled chapter of Persuasion is given, in compliance with wishes both publicly and privately expressed.
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About this title

Review:

a must for lovers of Austen's work (Choice Magazine)

A very good introduction by Kathryn Sutherland (Derwent May, the Times,)

Book Description:

This much-expanded second edition of James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his famous aunt contains for the first time the texts of Lady Susan, and the fragmentary The Watsons, as well as a brief summary of Jane Austen's last unfinished work, Sanditon, and revised biographical details.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440042233
• ISBN 13: 9781440042232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382