A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections

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James Edward Austen-Leigh Kathryn Sutherland (Professorial Fellow in English, Professorial Fellow in English, St Anne's College, Oxford University)

A Memoir of Jane Austen

and Other Family Recollections

James Edward Austen-Leigh, Kathryn Sutherland (Professorial Fellow in English, Professorial Fellow in English, St Anne's College, Oxford University)

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Worlds Classics
08 May 2008

Biography: literary; Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Oxford World's Classics

'I doubt whether it would be possible to mention any author of note, whose personal obscurity was so complete.'

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.

This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's 'Biographical Notice' of 1818 and his lesser known 'Memoir' of 1833, making a unique biographical record.

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By: James Edward Austen-Leigh
Edited by: Kathryn Sutherland (Professorial Fellow in English Professorial Fellow in English St Anne's College Oxford University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 262g
ISBN: 9780199540778
ISBN 10: 0199540772
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 08 May 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active