Jane Austen's Letters - Softcover

Austen, Jane

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ISBN 10: 1414500084 ISBN 13: 9781414500089

Publisher: Pavilion Pr, 2002

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Northanger Abbey First accepted by a publisher in 1803, Northanger Abbey was eventually published posthumously in 1818. In it Austen weaves a romance full of suspense and comedy around the heroine Catherine Morland's first foray into society. The style of the novel is a unique hybrid; along the way Austen parodies the eighteenth-century novel of manners, the Gothic novel, and even the educational treatises of the ... Full description

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"Her dating...is painstaking and well-argued. She provides full textual notes, an excellent bibliography, full bibliographical and topographical indices as well as a general one, and a sensible preface...plainly indispensable to all genuine Austen enthusiasts, as well as scholars. To a historian they are invaluable and repay the closest study."--Sunday Telegraph"[A] very welcome reappearance in print of the sisterly gossip of Divine Jane.'"--Literary Review"In this new edition of the Letters, Austen is more sustained and controlled than ever, meticulously annotated and defined by Dierdre Le Faye's impressive editorial scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement"[An] excellent new revised Oxford edition of the letters."--The London Review of Books "Her dating...is painstaking and well-argued. She provides full textual notes, an excellent bibliography, full bibliographical and topographical indices as well as a general one, and a sensible preface...plainly indispensable to all genuine Austen enthusiasts, as well as scholars. To a historian they are invaluable and repay the closest study."--Sunday Telegraph "[A] very welcome reappearance in print of the sisterly gossip of Divine Jane.'"--Literary Review "In this new edition of the Letters, Austen is more sustained and controlled than ever, meticulously annotated and defined by Dierdre Le Faye's impressive editorial scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement "[An] excellent new revised Oxford edition of the letters."--The London Review of Books "Her dating...is painstaking and well-argued. She provides full textual notes, an excellent bibliography, full bibliographical and topographical indices as well as a general one, and a sensible preface...plainly indispensable to all genuine Austen enthusiasts, as well as scholars. To a historianthey are invaluable and repay the closest study."--Sunday Telegraph"[A] very welcome reappearance in print of the sisterly gossip of Divine Jane.'"--Literary Review"In this new edition of the Letters, Austen is more sustained and controlled than ever, meticulously annotated and defined by Dierdre Le Faye's impressive editorial scholarship."--Times Literary Supplement"[An] excellent new revised Oxford edition of the letters."--The London Review of Books

About the Author:

Deirdre Le Faye is Administrator at the British Museum. Her publications include Jane Austen: A Family Record, and co-author with Maggie Black of A Jane Austen Cookery Book.

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