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Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): A Family Record Paperback – August 17, 2006

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Almost one hundred years after the death of Jane Austen, William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh published Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters.  A Family Record (1913).  The book lovingly details Jane’s birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity; the everyday minutiae of her life, the circumstances in which she wrote her juvenilia and her six novels, and her early death.  Using Jane Austen’s own letters, additional letters sent between a large and fond family, and family reminiscences, William and Richard Austen-Leigh continued the family tradition of carefully nurturing the literary and personal reputation of a literary icon who also happened to be a most beloved aunt.
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  1. Print length
    400 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Barnes & Noble
  4. Publication date
    August 17, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.81 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0760783233
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0760783238
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William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh were among the many relatives that wrote a biography about Jane Austen. They attempted to bring a measure of objectivity to the family biographies of Jane Austen by consolidating every available source of knowledge about her. William Austen-Leigh, born in 1843, was Jane Austen’s grand-nephew, and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh was William’s nephew.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Barnes & Noble; Reprint edition (August 17, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760783233
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760783238
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.81 x 8.25 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars For just the facts of Jane Austen's life, this is the best
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2019
I have been reading a few Austen bios over the past month.

The two modern professional biographers I have read begin by accusing the Austen family of "controlling" the Austen legacy and "whitewashing" Ms. Austen's life.

So I read this book and the book by Ms. Austen's nephew. There is nothing "hidden". The modern bios tend to "expand" Ms. Austen's life by telling the story of her brothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins, near and distant, to "show" that Ms. Austen did not have the "small life" implied by this book and her nephew's.

Well, she did have a "small life". The fact that her relatives had more adventuresome lives does not change that fact and, so, I do not hold it against the author for focusing exclusively on Ms. Austen and not bogging down his book with secondary information about other persons' lives.

What you get is a straight-forward substantially chronological statement of the events which occurred in Jane Austen's life. Interspersed throughout with her letters to give the "facts" a bit of her personality.

I like the combination. I found I had a better sense of who Jane Austen like was in her day-to-day life from reading this book.

The modern bios are better at giving you a sense of the environ in which she lived and the possible people and social themes which influenced her writing, but they are particularly poor at helping you sense who Jane Austen might have been like if you met her on the street.

So, read the bios by the Austens if you want to know what Ms. Austen might have been like if you stopped by her home.
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