A Memoir of Jane Austen: and Other Family Recollections (Oxford World's Classics) | 
| Author: James Edward Austen-leigh
Creator: Kathryn Sutherland
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed. /
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0199540772
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.7
EAN: 9780199540778
ASIN: 0199540772
Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all subsequent accounts. These are family memories, the record of Jane Austen's life shaped and limited by the loyalties, reserve, and affection of nieces and nephews recovering in old age the outlines of the young aunt they had each known. They still remembered the shape of her bonnet and the tone of her voice, and their first-hand accounts bring her vividly before us. Their declared partiality also raises fascinating issues concerning biographical truth, and the terms in which all biography functions.
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social changes October 12, 2008
The writer here is very informative and not at all stilted. There are some interesting questions brought up as I read this. He writes of changes which have taken place now (i.e. mid to late 19th century) from the mid 18th century.He says-who can fix twenty years hence, the date when our dinners began to be carved and handed round by servants, instead of smoking before out eyes and noses on the table?-- what is implied here? Also later in the narrative he discusses the custom of sending out babies to cottages to be nursed. He allows that this seems to strange to "us"(circa 1869) but concludes that perhaps the parsonages in those days (at the time of Jane Austen and siblings were born) were less grand and the cottages less squalid. What interests me is the reasons that the cottages in the later 19th century have become poorer than maybe 70 years before. Recognizing that there are variations in location and family situations in all periods I am wondering why he would say this. Is this the "Dickens effect"? I wish some British social historian would read this and comment.
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