Letters of Jane Austen

Letters by Jane Austen from 1808 to 1817 published for the first time in 1884, with other family documents.

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

9781108003407, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

380 pages
21.6 x 2.1 x 14 cm, 0.48 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 (1884) publishes these letters for the first time, and sets them in a family context drawn from the reminiscences of those who knew Austen personally. This second of two volumes presents a series of letters written between 1808 and her death in 1817, that is, mostly in the years she was settled at Chawton in Hampshire; in addition Brabourne includes a little group of poems, and other family documents. The letters cover the years of her career as a published author, and include many fascinating comments about her own and others' writings, as well as observations about the world around her.

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]