Letters of Jane Austen
by
Jane Austen
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Letters of Jane Austen 2 Volume Paperback Set
ISBN-10
1108003397
ISBN-13
9781108003391
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 20th, 2009
Print length
396 Pages
Weight
518 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 16.20 x 2.40 cms
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Many of Jane Austen's letters were published for the first time in this collection by her great-nephew Lord Brabourne. The letters are set within a context that explains their significance. This first volume begins with a biographical essay and includes letters from 1796, when Austen was twenty, to 1807.
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.
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