There have been many studies, critical books, and learned articles produced over the years about Jane Austen which increased in the latter part of the 20th century. Her novels, juvenilia and surviving letters have been intensively researched. Added to this, there is a growing interest in her life, times, the importance of a sense of place to her writing and in her familial and social relationships. Included in this set of source books are: James Edward Austen-Leigh's Recollections of the Early Days of the Vine Hunt (1865) which describes some of the people who belonged to the Austen circle in...
There have been many studies, critical books, and learned articles produced over the years about Jane Austen which increased in the latter part of the...
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 far the most important. These letters are invaluable as memoires pour servir; although they cover only the comparatively rare periods when the two sisters were separated, and although Cassandra purposely destroyed many of the letters likely to prove the most interesting, from a distaste for publicity."
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...
