Letters of Jane Austen

by Jane Austen

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Published 1884 by R. Bentley in London .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Austen, Jane, -- 1775-1817

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Edition Notes

Statement	edited with an introduction and critical remarks by Edward, Lord Brabourne. Vol.2.
Contributions	Knatchbull-Hugessen, E. H.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL17410516M

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Read this book on Questia. Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies. Jane Austen's letters afford a unique insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative, they bring alive her family and friends, her surroundings and contemporary events with a freshness unparalleled in modern biographies.

Jane Austen is known for six novels: Sense and Sensibility (), Pride and Prejudice (), Mansfield Park (), Emma (), and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (both ). In them, she created vivid fictional worlds, drawing much of her material from the circumscribed world of English country gentlefolk that she knew.   Jane Austen’s Letters, edited by Deirdre Le Faye In Austen’s novels, letters often play a fundamental role. Whether they contribute to smash misconceptions, bear happy (or unhappy, as the case may be) tidings to expectant readers, or profess enduring love, several narrative shifts have occurred because one character or another decided to. One recipe comes from Martha Lloyd, Austen’s longtime friend and eventual sister-in-law, who lived with the Austen sisters for the final decade and a half of the author’s life. Lloyd kept a small “household book,” included in which were a number of recipes. One entry reads: Pease [sic] Soup. Take two quarts of pease. Boil them to a pulp.

Genre/Form: Personal correspondence Correspondence: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Austen, Jane, Novels and letters of Jane Austen. How appropriate that The Annotated Sense and Sensibility is being published during the bicentenary year of Jane Austen’s first published novel.. This new book includes the complete text of Jane Austen’s classic with annotations by Dr. David M. Shapard, an expert in eighteenth-century European History who also brought us similar annotated editions of Pride and .   Austen to her sister Cassandra, from 16 September Photograph: Bonhams The letter, dated 16 September and written shortly after the publication of Pride and Prejudice, runs to four pages.