| A Memoir of Jane Austen Contributor(s): Austen-Leigh, James Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 1725163500 ISBN-13: 9781725163508 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.23 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.61 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions. |