Jane Austen's Letters: 1 - Softcover

Austen, Jane

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ISBN 10: 141450022X ISBN 13: 9781414500225

Publisher: Pavilion Pr, 2002

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Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Above all readers recognize the unmistakable voice of the author of "Pride and Prejudice", as she describes balls and ball gowns, thoughtful and constructive when writing about the business of literary composition. This edition of the "Letters" first appeared in 1932, and a second edition followed 20 years later. For this third edition, Deirdre Le Faye adds new material that has come to light since 1952, and reorders the letters into their correct chronological sequence. She provides new biographical, topographical and general indexes, annotation, and information on watermarks, postmarks and other physical details of the manuscripts.

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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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