List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on Texts and AbbreviationsSelect Chronology of LettersIntroduction A Life in LettersChapter 1 Austen's Life in LettersChapter 2 Austen's Letters in Family "Lives"Chapter 3 Cassandra and CorrespondenceChapter 4 The Sisterhood of the LettersChapter 5 Novels in Letters: Letters into NovelsChapter 6 Letters and Novels: Places and SpacesChapter 7 Letters and Patchwork: Scraps in the LifeConclusion Letters and Biography: Prisms, Kaleidoscopes, 'Elephants & Kangaroons'BibliographyIndex
Catherine Delafield is an independent scholar based in Devon, UK. She has previously taught at the University of Leicester and has published on women's life writing, diaries, and the serialization of popular fiction. She is the author of Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines, and Women's Letters as Life Writing 1840-1885.