A memoir of Jane Austen : and other family recollections / J.E. Austen-Leigh ; edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austen-Leigh, James Edward, 1798-1874.

Contributor:

Sutherland, Kathryn.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Family.

Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Families.

Novelists, English--19th century--Family relationships.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lxii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

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 nephews 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 raises 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 less known "Memoir" of 1833.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [lii]-lvii) and index.

ISBN:

0192840746

OCLC:

50270578