Memoir of Jane Austen

By Austen-Leigh, James Edward

Book Id: WPLBN0002951282
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Memoir of Jane Austen
Author:	Austen-Leigh, James Edward
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Biography
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Memoir of Jane Austen
Historic Publication Date:	1870
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Edward Austen-Leigh, B. J. (1870). Memoir of Jane Austen. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

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The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus seemed to call for it. In the present Edition, the narrative is somewhat enlarged, and a few more letters are added; with a short specimen of her childish stories. The cancelled chapter of ‘Persuasion’ is given, in compliance with wishes both publicly and privately expressed. A fragment of a story entitled ‘The Watsons’ is printed; p. iii and extracts are given from a novel which she had begun a few months before her death; but the chief addition is a short tale never before published, called ‘Lady Susan.’ {0a} I regret that the little which I have been able to add could not appear in my First Edition; as much of it was either unknown to me, or not at my command, when I first published; and I hope that I may claim some indulgent allowance for the difficulty of recovering little facts and feelings which had been merged half a century deep in oblivion. - James Edward Austen-Leigh in the Preface to Memoir of Jane Austen

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