Austen-Leigh, James Edward,  1798-1874 <br/><br/>
Memoir of Jane Austen 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Memoir_of_Jane_Austen  Release date is 2006-02-19 
<br/><br/>Transcribed from the 1871 Richard Bentley and Son edition by Les Bowler  Transcribed from the 1871 Richard Bentley and Son edition by Les Bowler 
<br/><br/> "Memoir of Jane Austen" by James Edward Austen-Leigh is a biography published in 1869. Written by Austen's nephew with help from family members, this Victorian-era memoir introduced the wider public to Jane Austen's works for the first time. Drawing on scattered family recollections and carefully edited letters, Austen-Leigh portrays his aunt as a domestic, unambitious writer. Yet the portrait remains incomplete—shaped by what Cassandra Austen chose to preserve or destroy, and by Victorian conventions that kept private matters hidden. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR