A Memoir of Jane Austen By James Austen-Leigh - Wordsworth Classics Special edition she decides to embrace her

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Published: 28/06/2007

A Memoir of Jane Austen By James Austen-Leigh - Wordsworth Classics Special edition she decides to embrace herWith an introduction by Dr Sally Minogue Jane Austen's nephew James knew her fondly as Aunt Jane when he was a child, attended her funeral in Winchester Cathedral as a young man, and wrote this memoir of her some 50 years after her death, as her fame was growing. He could not have imaged Austen's immense importance as a writer, and the curiosity about her, in today's world. That is part of the charm of James Austen Leigh's memoir, which remains the