Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Jane Austen
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Jane Austen's Transatlantic Sister
Author: Sheila Johnson KindredPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773552081
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1807, genteel, Bermuda-born Fanny Palmer (1789-1814) married Jane Austen's youngest brother, Captain Charles Austen, and was thrust into a demanding life within the world of the British navy. Experiencing adventure and adversity in wartime conditions both at sea and onshore, the spirited and resilient Fanny travelled between and lived in Bermuda, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and England. After crossing the Atlantic in 1811, she ingeniously made a home for Charles and their daughters aboard a working naval vessel, and developed a supportive friendship with his sister, Jane. In Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister, Fanny’s articulate and informative letters – transcribed in full for the first time and situated in their meticulously researched historical context – disclose her quest for personal identity and autonomy, her maturation as a wife and mother, and the domestic, cultural, and social milieu she inhabited. Sheila Johnson Kindred also investigates how Fanny was a source of naval knowledge for Jane, and how much she was an inspiration for Austen’s literary invention, especially for the female naval characters in Persuasion. Although she died young, Fanny’s story is a compelling record of female naval life that contributes significantly to our limited knowledge of women’s roles in the Napoleonic Wars. Enhanced by rarely seen illustrations, Fanny’s life story is a rich new source for Jane Austen scholars and fans of her fiction as well as for those interested in biography, women’s letters, and history of the family.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters is a biography by William Austen-Leigh. It details her infancy, teenage years, and adulthood; the daily intricacies of her life and the conditions in which she penned her novels.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher:
ISBN: 1406863513
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An intimate study of the British author Jane Austen by her nephew William and his descendant, Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters;
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015271197
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Jane Austen's Letters
Author: Jane AustenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199576076
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 695
Book Description
The fourth edition of Jane Austen's Letters incorporates the findings of new scholarship to enrich our understanding of Austen and give us the fullest view yet of her life and family. The biographical and topographical indexes have been updated, a new subject index has been created, and the contents of the notes added to the general index.
Jane Austen
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Jane Austen Her Life and Letters, a Family Record
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher:
ISBN: 9781462293674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Hardcover reprint of the original 1913 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: William Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen Her Life And Letters A Family Record. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: William Austen-Leigh. Jane Austen Her Life And Letters A Family Record. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1913. Subject: History
Jane Austen's 'outlandish Cousin'
Author: Deirdre Le FayePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Eliza de Feuillide is best known as the spirited first cousin of Jane Austen whose colourful life and travels are recounted through her extensive correspondence with Jane, the Austen family, and other friends and relatives. Born in Calcutta in 1761, she spent an impecunious childhood in England and then France, where she married an aristocratic French Officer and lived through the Revolution, surviving her husband, who was guillotined in 1794. Many of Eliza's letters vividly illuminate the lives of Jane Austen and her family, as well as revealing the wider world against which Austen's novels are set. The letters were never intended for publication and are all the more revealing for being long before Jane became a well-known authoress. This new biography collects all the surviving letters, providing many valuable new insights into the background to Jane Austen's novels as well as being a highly entertaining social and historical record in its own right.
Jane Austen
Author: William Austen-LeighPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515133704
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters is a classic Jane Austen biography by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh.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.Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism.[2][b] Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.With the publications of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), 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. She also left behind three volumes of juvenile writings in manuscript and another unfinished novel, The Watsons. Her six full-length novels have rarely been out of print, although they were published anonymously and brought her moderate success and little fame during her lifetime.A significant transition in her posthumous reputation occurred in 1833, when her novels were republished in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series, illustrated by Ferdinand Pickering, and sold as a set.[4] They gradually gained wider acclaim and popular readership. In 1869, fifty-two years after her death, her nephew's publication of A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced a compelling version of her writing career and supposedly uneventful life to an eager audience.Austen has inspired a large number of critical essays and literary anthologies. Her novels have inspired many films, from 1940's Pride and Prejudice to more recent productions like Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Love & Friendship (2016).