Memoir of Jane Austen

by James Edward Austen-Leigh

Overview

THE MEMOIR of my AUNT, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989743140
Publisher:	Binker North
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	138
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

James Edward Austen-Leigh (1798-1894) was Jane Austen's nephew and son of her eldest brother James.
His Memoir brings together Austen-Leigh's recollections of 'dear Aunt Jane' along with recollections of various other members of the Austen family. Austen-Leigh provides descriptions of life in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
According to the British Library, James Edward Austen-Leigh wrote and published A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869 and two years later published a second, enlarged edition which included extra letters and recollections, as well as early or incomplete drafts of several previously unknown Austen works. This edition was published in 1926.

Table of Contents

1. Introductory remarks;
2. Description of Steventon;
3. Early compositions;
4. Removal from Steventon;
5. Description of Jane Austen's person, character and tastes;
6. Habits of composition resumed after a long interval;
7. Seclusion from the literary world;
8. Slow growth of her fame;
9. Opinions expressed by eminent persons;
10. Observations on the novels;
11. Declining health of Jane Austen;
12. Postscript.