A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (536 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199540772 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. 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. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. 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. James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death
`a must for lovers of Austen's work' Choice Magazine`A very good introduction by Kathryn Sutherland' Derwent May, the Times,
"All Personal memoirs brought together, nice to read with the letters" according to A. Woodley. Primary sources to Jane Austen's life are few and far between. This version includes the few personal family accounts which were published. James Edward Austen-Leighs is the largest of these, although still not very substantial. His two sisters also published them.This includes four memoirs of Aunt Jane, all written much after her death by Caroline Austen, Anna Lefroy, James Austen_leigh and Henry Austen. Some are better reads than others but they add to the sparse amount of biographical and family information on Austen.Hand. "In Her Family's Eyes." according to HMS Warspite. As both her fans and her biographers know all too well, Jane Austen left behind very little in the way of biographical material. In addition to her six published novels, childhood writings, and some unpublished novel fragments, we have that correspondence which survived weeding by her family members after her death. For impressions of Jane in life, we are dependent to a significant degree on four brief memoirs written by family members, in some cases many years after her early death in 1817. "A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Oth. Zephyr7 said A must for Jane fans. This bio is written by Jane Austen's nephew, over a hundred years ago, so it is well-informed and full of tidbits of information about this great novelist. I only wish that someone would come along to do a bit more through telling of Jane A's life. I felt that it was a little bit rosy, something that a family would be comfortable publishing. It left me wondering why we know so little about her.
James Edward Austen-Leigh was the nephew of Jane Austen, one of the most beloved authors of the English language. She was previously Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham.. The son of Austen s eldest brother, James, James Edward was the author of A Memoir of Jane Austen, a family project first published in 1869 that collected the family s memories of Jane, who had passed away in 1817, and which revealed