Memoir Of Jane Austen By James Edward Austen-leigh
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Synopsis
The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus seemed to call for it. In the present Edition, the narrative is somewhat enlarged, and a few more letters are added; with a short specimen of her childish stories. The cancelled chapter of Persuasion is given, in compliance with wishes both publicly and privately expressed. A fragment of a story entitled The Watsons is printed; and extracts are given from a novel which she had begun a few months before her death; but the chief addition is a short tale never before published, called Lady Susan. I regret that the little which I have been able to add could not appear in my First Edition; as much of it was either unknown to me, or not at my command, when I first published; and I hope that I may claim some indulgent allowance for the difficulty of recovering little facts and feelings which had been merged half a century deep in oblivion. James Edward Austen-Leigh in the Preface to Memoir of Jane Austen
Episodes
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01 – Preface and Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks–Birth of Jane Austen–Her Family
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02 – Description of Steventon–Life at Steventon–Changes of Habits and Customs in the last Century
25/10/2017 Duration: 33minMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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03 – Early Compositions–Friends at Ashe–A very Old Letter–Lines on the Death of Mrs. Lefroy–Observations on Jane Austen’s Letter-writing–Letters
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04 – Removal from Steventon–Residence at Bath and at Southampton–Settling at Chawton
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05 – Description of Jane Austen’s person, character, and tastes
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06 – Habits of Composition resumed after a long interval–First publication–The interest taken by the Author in the success of her Works
21/10/2017 Duration: 18minMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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07 – Seclusion from the literary world–Notice from the Prince Regent–Correspondence with Mr. Clarke–Suggestions to alter her style of writing
20/10/2017 Duration: 31minMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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08 – Slow growth of her fame–Ill success of first attempts at publication–Two Reviews of her works contrasted
19/10/2017 Duration: 13minMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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09 – Opinions expressed by eminent persons–Opinions of others of less eminence–Opinion of American readers
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11 – Declining health of Jane Austen–Elasticity of her spirits–Her resignation and humility–Her death
16/10/2017 Duration: 27minMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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12 – The Cancelled Chapter of ‘Persuasion.’
15/10/2017 Duration: 23minMore great books at LoyalBooks.com
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