The poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen family
By: edited by David Selwyn.
Contributors: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.; Selwyn, David.; Jane Austen Society.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press in association with the Jane Austen Society
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Poetry.; Austen family -- Poetry.; Novelists -- Poetry.
Description: As in many households in the late eighteenth century, writing verses was a pastime with the Austen family, and the composition of ingenious riddles and charades provided a source of lively entertainment. This volume of verses by Jane Austen and her family contains all the known poems by Jane herself as well as a selection of work by her mother, her sister Cassandra, four of her brothers, her uncle James, her nieces Anna and Fanny, her nephew James Edward and other relatives.

David Selwyn provides an introduction and full explanatory notes; his transcriptions, taken from autograph manuscripts or from the earliest copies, are precise in terms of spelling punctuation and layout.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-64).