PREFACE. The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with
more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it
in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many
with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated
interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about
her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the
Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I
might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus
seemed to call for it. In the present Edition, the narrative is
somewhat enlarged, and a few more letters are added; with a short
specimen of her childish stories. The cancelled chapter of
'Persuasion' is given, in compliance with wishes both publicly and
privately expressed. A fragment of a story entitled 'The Watsons'
is printed; and extracts are given from a novel which she had begun
a few months before her death; but the chief addition is a short
tale never before published, called 'Lady Susan.' {0a} I regret
that the little which I have been able to add could not appear in
my First Edition; as much of it was either unknown to me, or not at
my command, when I first published; and I hope that I may claim
some indulgent allowance for the difficulty of recovering little
facts and feelings which had been merged half a century deep in
oblivion. November 17, 1870.
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