A memoir of Jane Austen : and other family recollections
Title:
A memoir of Jane Austen : and other family recollections
Author:
Austen-Leigh, James Edward, 1798-1874.
ISBN:
9780192840745
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Physical Description:
lxii, 276 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents:
The Austen Family Tree -- A Chronology of the Austen family -- A Memoir of Jane Austen (1871) / J. E. Austen-Leigh -- 'Biographical Notice of the Author' (1818) / Henry Austen -- 'Memoir of Miss Austen' (1833) / Henry Austen -- 'Recollections of Aunt Jane' (1864) / Anna Lefroy -- My Aunt Jane Austen: A Memoir (1867) / Caroline Austen -- App.: Family Letters.
Abstract:
"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 nephew 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 raised 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 the collection a unique biographical record."--BOOK JACKET.
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