William Austen Leigh: 4 books

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...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS Preface Chronology I. Austens and Leighs, 1600-1764 II. Steventon, 1764-1785 III. Warren Hastings and the Hancocks, 1752-1794 IV. Family Life, 1779-1792 V. Growth and Change, 1792-1796 VI....

PREFACE Since 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh published his Memoir of Jane Austen, considerable additions have been made to the stock of information available for her biographers. Of these fresh sources of knowledge the set of letters from Jane to Cassandra, edited by Lord Brabourne, has been by...

A beautiful biography, thoroughly researched from family records, this biography looks past the success of her books to see the real women. Studying her personal correspondence to friends and family. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely...