num_pages: 456
description: 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 circumstances in which she wrote her juvenilia and her six novels, and her early death. Using Jane Austen's own letters, additional letters sent between a large and fond family, and family reminiscences, William and Richard Austen-Leigh continued the family tradition of carefully nurturing the literary and personal reputation of a literary icon who also happened to be a most beloved aunt.
language: English
title: Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record
titlecomplete: Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record
characters: Jane
genres: Biography, Classics, History, British Literature, Autobiography, Collections, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Literature
ratings_count: 515
publisher: Hesperides Press