Jane Austen: A Family Record
by Deirdre Le FayeEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-12-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
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 Record was first published in 1989, and this new edition incorporates information that has come to light since then, and provides new illustrations and updated family trees. Le Faye gives a detailed account of Austen's life and literary career. She has collected together documented facts as well as the traditions concerning the novelist, and places her within the context of a widespread, affectionate and talented family group. Readers will learn how Austen transformed the stuff of her peaceful life in the Hampshire countryside into six novels that are amongst the most popular in the English language. This fascinating record of Austen and her family will be of great interest to general readers and scholars alike.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | |
| Foreword by Joan Impey | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Notes and Abbreviations | |
| Chronology of Jane Austen's life | |
| 1. Austens and Leighs, 1600-1764 | |
| 2. Deane and Steventon, 1764-75 | |
| 3. India and France, 1752-85 | |
| 4. Childhood and Steventon, 1775-86 | |
| 5. Family Life, 1786-92 | |
| 6. First compositions, 1787-92 | |
| 7. The young Jane, 1792-96 | |
| 8. Later years at Steventon, 1796-99 | |
| 9. The Leigh-Perrots and Bath, 1799-1801 | |
| 10. Bath and the West Country, 1801-1804 | |
| 11. Bath and Southampton, 1804-08 | |
| 12. Southampton and Chawton, 1808-09 | |
| 13. First publication, 1809-12 | |
| 14. Pride and Prejudice, 1813 | |
| 15. Mansfield Park and Emma, 1814-1815 | |
| 16. Emma and Persuasion, 1816-17 | |
| 17 Biography, 1817 and after | |
| References | |
| Bibliography | |
| Family pedigrees | |
| Origin and descent of biographical information on Jane Austen. |
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