The Jane Austen Files: A Complete Anthology of Letters & Family Recollections

by Helen Amy

Overview

Jane Austen is one of England’s greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded as her reputation and fame grew in the nineteenth century.

This is the life of Jane in the words of the people who knew her; it provides a fascinating insight into her life as a member of a close, loving family and her works as a novelist. The Jane Austen Files brings these memories, in the form of family diaries and memoirs by her nearest and dearest relatives, as well as all of Jane’s own letters, together in one volume. This book also opens a window on to the England in which Jane Austen lived, and lovingly set her novels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781445660387
Publisher:	Amberley Publishing
Publication date:	03/31/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Product dimensions:	4.75(w) x 7.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Helen Amy is the author of Jane Austen (‘An intimate portrait of Austen as author, daughter and sister’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY) and The Street Children of Victorian London, both published by Amberley. She has an MA in History and specialises in the lives of women in Regency England. She is currently writing Jane Austen’s England, also for Amberley. She lives in Godalming in Surrey.

Table of Contents

Chronology of Jane Austen's Life 6

Introduction 11

1 A Biographical Notice 14

2 A Memoir of Miss Austen 20

3 A Niece's Recollections 26

4 A Niece's Memoir 31

5 The First Biography 46

6 The Letters of Jane Austen 156

7 An Updated Family Record 470

8 A Great-Niece's Biography 492

9 A Niece's Diary 556

10 Enduring Fame 560

11 Jane Austen's Family and Friends 562

Family Trees 573

Bibliography 575

Acknowledgements 576