Letters by Jane Austen, from 1796 to 1817, published for the first time in 1884, with biographical commentary.
Many of Jane Austen's letters were published for the first time in this collection by Lord Brabourne. The letters begin in 1796, when she was twenty, and end with her death in 1817. Framed with biographical commentary, the collection gave unprecedented access to the mind of a great novelist.
Letters by Jane Austen, from 1796 to 1817, published for the first time in 1884, with biographical commentary.
Many of Jane Austen's letters were published for the first time in this collection by Lord Brabourne. The letters begin in 1796, when she was twenty, and end with her death in 1817. Framed with biographical commentary, the collection gave unprecedented access to the mind of a great novelist.
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 The letters are framed by a biographical essay and some other previously unpublished family documents.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.
Jane Austena (TM)s (1775-1817) works have enjoyed a renewed popularity in the last year with the film release of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility - both critically acclaimed. Sir Walter Scott said, Jane Austen had a oethat exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting.a
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