A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Austen-Leigh, James Edward / Suong>theong>rland, Kathryn, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in , over fifty years after her death. Togeong>theong>r with ong>theong> shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, ong>theong> Memoir remains ong>theong> prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. ong>Theong>se are family memories, ong>theong> record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by ong>theong> loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age ong>theong> outlines of ong>theong> young aunt ong>theong>y had each known. ong>Theong>y still remembered ong>theong> shape of her bonnet and ong>theong> tone of her voice, and ong>theong>ir first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. ong>Theong>ir declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and ong>theong> terms in which all biography functions. This edition brings togeong>theong>r for ong>theong> first time ong>theong>se three memoirs, and also includes Jane's broong>theong>r Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of and his less known "Memoir" of .