James Edward Austen-Leigh A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN Folio Society
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James Edward Austen-Leigh A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN Folio Society
Folio edition sixth impression slipcased hardback of A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. Introduction by Fay Weldon. Published by the Folio Society, London in 1996. A Memoir of Jane Austen was first published in 1870. In 1871 there appeared a second, enlarged edition. This text is taken from the second edition, as edited by R.W. Chapman for the Clarendon Press in 1926.The book and the slipcase are both in very good condition with only minor shelf wear (Original light brown/ dark beige cloth boards, onlay black & silver silhouette of Jane Austen on front board and silver lettering on spine). In its original beige slipcase with a black silhouette of Jane Austen on the front (same as the boards). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Jane's brother Henry helped her negotiate with a publisher and her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, appeared in 1811. Her next novel Pride and Prejudice received highly favourable reviews. Mansfield Park was published in 1814, then Emma in 1816. Emma was dedicated to the prince regent, an admirer of her work. All of Jane Austen's novels were published anonymously. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published after her death in 1817, and began a third, which was eventually entitled Sanditon, but died before completing it.
A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of Jane Austen published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen's many relatives. However, it was the decisions of her close friend and sister, Cassandra Austen, to destroy many of Jane's letters after her death that shaped the material available for the biography. The Memoir does not attempt to unreservedly tell the story of Jane Austen's life. Following the Victorian conventions of biography, it kept much private information from the public, but family members disagreed over just how much should be revealed, for example, regarding Austen's romantic relationships.
The Memoir introduced the public to the works of Jane Austen, generating interest in novels which only the literary elite had read up until that point. It remained the primary biographical work on the author for over half a century.
Book size: 8" x 5.25". 202 pages with 19 illustrations, including a colour frontispiece. Includes index.
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