Letters 1796-1817 /
Austin, Jane
Letters 1796-1817 / Jane Austin - The World's classics - London : Oxford University Press, 1955 - x, 226 pages ; 15 cm - The World's classics .
Sophie Laws collection
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Written to her sister Cassandra and other near relatives and intimate friends, this selection of almost one-third of Jane Austen's surviving letters makes a delightful introduction to her life and work. Although they rarely mention her novels, the letters provide valuable insights into the social conventions of her time, and record in detail the births, marriages, and deaths, and the family tensions and occasional scandals that inspired her writing.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Correspondence
823.7 AUS
Letters 1796-1817 / Jane Austin - The World's classics - London : Oxford University Press, 1955 - x, 226 pages ; 15 cm - The World's classics .
Sophie Laws collection
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Written to her sister Cassandra and other near relatives and intimate friends, this selection of almost one-third of Jane Austen's surviving letters makes a delightful introduction to her life and work. Although they rarely mention her novels, the letters provide valuable insights into the social conventions of her time, and record in detail the births, marriages, and deaths, and the family tensions and occasional scandals that inspired her writing.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Correspondence
823.7 AUS