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Published by her nephew, this biography of the great Jane Austen offers insight into the author's life. Including personal letters and unfinished manuscripts, readers can uncover more details about the beloved writer and her innermost thoughts.This classic account remains the most influential early biography of Austen and an essential companion to her novels. For admirers of her work, it deepens understanding. For new readers, it opens the door to the world that inspired her fiction.

A Memoir of Jane Austen is the Austen family’s memoir of the beloved 19th century English novelist. Written and compiled by Austen’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen reveals the author as her family knew her, while at the same time protecting the author’s privacy in keeping with the Victorian conventions of the time. A Memoir of Jane Austen did, however, reveal for the first time Austen’s authorship of such classic stories as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility, and generated interest in these and her other novels among the general public.

A Memoir of Jane Austen was the first published biography about the author and remained the primary biographical work about her for half a century.

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A Memoir of Jane Austen is the Austen family’s memoir of the beloved 19th century English novelist. Written and compiled by Austen’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen reveals the author as her family knew her, while at the same time protecting the author’s privacy in keeping with the Victorian conventions of the time.

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According to Wikipedia: "A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen''s many relatives. However, it was the decisions of her close friend and sister, Cassandra Austen, to destroy many of Jane''s letters after her death that shaped the material available for the biography."