Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): A Family Record

by Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, William Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen, et al.

Book Overview

This book is the outcome of years of research in Austen archives, and stems from the original family biography by W. and R. A. Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen: her Life and Letters. Jane Austen, A Family... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760783233
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

The Compleat Jane

A literate, entertaining, complete, and unsentimentalized account of Jane Austen and her family, nuclear and extended. The Austens and the Leighs (Jane's mother's family) were both numerous and well-connected; their relationships are detailed in an unequalled series of family trees. Ms. Le Faye has written about Jane Austen many times, and knows her stuff. If I were limited to one source of information on Miss Austen, A Family Record is the one I'd pick.