Letters of Jane Austen 2 Volume Paperback Set

Letters by Jane Austen, from 1796 to 1817, published for the first time in 1884, with biographical commentary.

Jane Austen (Author), Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Lord Brabourne (Edited by)

9781108003384, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 18 February 2010

774 pages
32.5 x 25.5 x 7 cm, 1.29 kg

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 The letters are framed by a biographical essay and some other previously unpublished family documents.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.

Volume I: Introduction
1. Godmersham and Goodnestone
2. Austens and Knights
3. Steventon and Chawton, Winchester
4. The novels
5. The novels
Letters
Volume II: Letters (continued)
Letters from Miss Cassandra Austen to her niece Miss Knight
Verses enclosed in one of the letters of 1807
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]