My Dear Cassandra

My Dear Cassandra
ISBN-10
185585015X
ISBN-13
9781855850156
Category
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Collins & Brown
Author
Jane Austen

Description

In 1884, Edward, Lord Brabourne published the letters of Jane Austen in two volumes. These were letters that had been bequeathed to Lady Knatchbull (née Fanny Knight), his mother, by her great-aunt Cassandra Austen. It was to Jane's sister Cassandra that most of the letters that survive were written. By 1884 Jane Austen's novels were much acclaimed. The time had come to offer to the public "a picture of her such as no history written by another person could give so well," wrote Lord Brabourne. "Amid the most ordinary details and most commonplace topics, every now and then sparkle out the same wit and humour which illuminate the pages of Pride and Prejudice, ... etc., and which have endeared the name of Jane Austen to many thousands of readers in English-speaking homes." This is reason enough to publish a fresh selection of extracts from the letters in an easily readable edition in which relevant excerpts from the novels, together with appropriate illustrations, illuminate Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author.--Adapted from page 6.

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