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Title: A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics)
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| A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA AMemoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections |
| You provided excellent service in processing our order. We received it, it seemed, very quickly for Christmas. My daughter loved the book. Thank you very much for your prompt service. |
| A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA Enjoying Jane |
| If you enjoy Jane Austen novels, you really should read this memoir from her nephew. It is like meeting his aunt and adds a special touch to the reading of her novels. |
| A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA Not what I hoped it would be |
| I've read this book three times (all three times while the electricity was out and only a lantern or flashlight at hand) and all three times I've been totally disappointed. This book gives no insight. Nothing interesting crops up. It's boring. But I give it three stars because at least it exists. I suggest if forced to read by candlelight, you turn to the Bronte bios. |
| A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA All Personal memoirs brought together, nice to read with the letters |
Primary sources to Jane Austen's life are few and far between. This version includes the few personal family accounts which were published. James Edward Austen-Leighs is the largest of these, although still not very substantial. His two sisters also published them.
This includes four memoirs of Aunt Jane, all written much after her death by Caroline Austen, Anna Lefroy, James Austen_leigh and Henry Austen. Some are better reads than others but they add to the sparse amount of biographical and family information on Austen.
Handily, there is a family tree provided as well as a chronology. There are also useful explanatory notes.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone but a keen Austen fan - one of the excellent biographies available are much more readable and entertaining. For an avid Janeite this book provides a substantial source of primary information. I would highly recommend reading this with the collected letters which have been collected and edited by Claire Tomalin.
It is a nice collection and it is great to see all these published, as they ought to be together in one volume. |
| A Memoir of Jane Austen: And Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics) by Oxford University Press, USA Product Description |
James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to
inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and
the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions.
This edition brings together for the first time these three memoirs, and also includes Jane's brother Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of 1818 and his less known "Memoir" of 1833. |
