THE ATHENAEUMMemoir of Jane AustenJames Edward Austen-Leigh
Biography
Memoir of Jane Austen
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textHer nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, who had known her when he was a boy, wrote this memoir half a century after her death, with the help of his sisters and cousins. It gave the world the creaking door, the small sheets of paper and the aunt who was everybody’s favourite, and it began the first great wave of interest in her. It is also, as the family meant it to be, discreet.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 3 hr 25 min
- Where to find it
- The Austen Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #17797. In the public domain in the United States.