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The son of Jane Austen's 'favourite niece' Fanny Knight, Lord
Brabourne, had inherited a large number of letters from Austen
including some to her sister Cassandra and others to members of the
Knight family. The Letters of Jane Austen (1884) publishes these
letters for the first time, and sets them in a family context drawn
from the reminiscences of those who knew Austen personally. This
first of two volumes begins with a biographical essay and then
includes letters from 1796, when Austen was a young woman of twenty
preoccupied with social events and the courtship of her friends, to
1807, which found her in lodging with her mother and sister in
Southampton, much sobered by the recent death of her father. Her
topics are often domestic ('You know how interesting the purchase
of a sponge-cake is to me') and her wit is evident throughout.
The son of Jane Austen's 'favourite niece' Fanny Knight, Lord
Brabourne, had inherited a large number of letters from Jane Austen
including some to her sister Cassandra and others to members of the
Knight family. The Letters of Jane Austen (1884) publishes these
letters for the first time, and sets them in a family context drawn
from the reminiscences of those who knew Austen personally. This
second of two volumes presents a series of letters written between
1808 and her death in 1817, that is, mostly in the years she was
settled at Chawton in Hampshire; in addition Brabourne includes a
little group of poems, and other family documents. The letters
cover the years of her career as a published author, and include
many fascinating comments about her own and others' writings, as
well as observations about the world around her.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
The son of Jane Austen's 'favourite niece' Fanny Knight, Lord
Brabourne had inherited a large number of letters from Jane Austen
including some to her sister Cassandra and others to members of the
Knight family. The Letters of Jane Austen (2 volumes, 1884) not
only publishes these letters for the first time, but sets them in a
family context drawn from the reminiscences of those who knew Jane
Austen personally. The letters begin in 1796, when Jane Austen was
twenty, and end with her death in 1817; they are informal, even
intimate, in tone, and they range across domestic, family, social
and literary topics. The letters are framed by a biographical essay
and some other previously unpublished family documents. As a whole
the material gave unprecedented access to the mind of a writer
beginning, in the late nineteenth century, to be recognised as one
of Britain's greatest novelists.
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