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Memoir of Jane Austen, by James Edward
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Title: Memoir of Jane Austen
Author: James Edward Austen-Leigh
Release Date: February 19, 2006 [eBook #17797]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1871 Richard Bentley and Son edition by Les Bowler.
A MEMOIR OF JANE AUSTEN.
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PREFACE.
THE MEMOIR of my AUNT, JANE AUSTEN, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an unabated interest is still taken in every particular that can be told about her. I am thus encouraged not only to offer a Second Edition of the Memoir, but also to enlarge it with some additional matter which I might have scrupled to intrude on the public if they had not thus seemed to call for it. In the present Edition, the narrative is somewhat enlarged, and a few more letters are added; with a short specimen of her childish stories. The cancelled chapter of 'Persuasion' is given, in compliance with wishes both publicly and privately expressed. A fragment of a story