A Memoir Of Jane Austen

Author : Syrie James
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061857432
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen written by Syrie James and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many rumors abound about a mysterious gentleman said to be the love of Jane's life—finally, the truth may have been found. . . . What if, hidden in an old attic chest, Jane Austen's memoirs were discovered after hundreds of years? What if those pages revealed the untold story of a life-changing love affair? That's the premise behind this spellbinding novel, which delves into the secrets of Jane Austen's life, giving us untold insights into her mind and heart. Jane Austen has given up her writing when, on a fateful trip to Lyme, she meets the well-read and charming Mr. Ashford, a man who is her equal in intellect and temperament. Inspired by the people and places around her, and encouraged by his faith in her, Jane begins revising Sense and Sensibility, a book she began years earlier, hoping to be published at last. Deft and witty, written in a style that echoes Austen's own, this unforgettable novel offers a delightfully possible scenario for the inspiration behind this beloved author's romantic tales. It's a remarkable book, irresistible to anyone who loves Jane Austen—and to anyone who loves a great story.

Author : James Austen-Leigh
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482545760
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Jane Austen written by James Austen-Leigh and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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; p. iii 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.November 17, 1870. James Edward Austen-Leigh

Author : Rachel Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720827
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austen Years written by Rachel Cohen and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2020 "A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer’s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review (editors' choice) "An absolutely fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again." —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live "About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author." In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels. Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma. With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large.

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543192988
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoir of Jane Austen written by James Edward Austen-Leigh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir of Jane Austen This biography of Jane Austen (1775-1817) was published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. Austen-Leigh described his "dear Aunt Jane" as someone who wrote in her spare time and had no interest in being famous. Following the Victorian conventions of biography, it kept private information secret but family members disagreed over just how much should be revealed regarding Austen's romantic relationships. The Memoir introduced the public to the works of Jane Austen, generating interest in her novels in an era where her work had been read mainly by upper class, educated readers. Austen is known primarily for her novels which critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. With the publications of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion. Austen has inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary have earned her historical importance.

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Jane Austen written by James Edward Austen-Leigh and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1882 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199540772
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Jane Austen written by James Edward Austen-Leigh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique edition brings together for the first time Austen-Leigh's memoir of his aunt Jane Austen, together with shorter recollections by James Edward's two sisters. It also includes Jane's brother Henry's two biographical accounts.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 178656629X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh by Jane Austen - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) written by Jane Austen and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Jane Austen’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Austen includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Austen’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443433063
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir Of Jane Austen written by James Edward Austen-Leigh and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir of Jane Austen is the Austen family’s memoir of the beloved 19th century English novelist. Written and compiled by Austen’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen reveals the author as her family knew her, while at the same time protecting the author’s privacy in keeping with the Victorian conventions of the time. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781548583743
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Memoir of Jane Austen written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Memoir of Jane Austen by Jane Austen, first published in 1872, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : James Edward Austen-Leigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoir of Jane Austen written by James Edward Austen-Leigh and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: