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PREFACE Since 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh published his Memoir
of Jane Austen, considerable additions have been made to the stock
of information available for her biographers. Of these fresh
sources of knowledge the set of letters from Jane to Cassandra,
edited by Lord Brabourne, has been by far the most important. These
letters are invaluable as memoires pour servir; although they cover
only the comparatively rare periods when the two sisters were
separated, and although Cassandra purposely destroyed many of the
letters likely to prove the most interesting, from a distaste for
publicity. Some further correspondence, and many incidents in the
careers of two of her brothers, may be read in Jane Austen's Sailor
Brothers, by J. H. Hubback and Edith C. Hubback; while Miss
Constance Hill has been able to add several family traditions to
the interesting topographical information embodied in her Jane
Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends. Nor ought we to forget the
careful research shown in other biographies of the author,
especially that by Mr. Oscar Fay Adams. During the last few years,
we have been fortunate enough to be able to add to this store; and
every existing MS. or tradition preserved by the family, of which
we have any knowledge, has been placed at our disposal. It seemed,
therefore, to us that the time had come when a more complete
chronological account of the novelist's life might be laid before
the public, whose interest in Jane Austen (as we readily
acknowledge) has shown no signs of diminishing, either in England
or in America.
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