I read this book a little each night. It's interesting to read her letters to her family but it isn't a riveting-read-in-a-day book. I really enjoyed a sense of her personality, her charm and her care for her family. The tenderness of her sister Cassandra's letters to her neice Fanny when Jane dies

William and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh include histories of family and connections and explanatory introductions to previously published and unpublished letters and biographical material. Additionally, the authors discuss Austen’s literature and literary career. Although some language and informati

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JANE AUSTEN, HER LIFE AND LETTERS:
A Family Record
(by W. Austen-Leigh and R. A. Austen-Leigh) (1913)
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This was another book on my required reading list in preparation for my graduate thesis. It certainly is a family record and it is rather dry.

I must confess that I read this biography with a grain of salt and a constant mental reminder that Jane’s immediate surviving family members edited the sectio

If you want to go beyond the pages published as a biography of Austen, this is the book that you need to study. It might be intriguing as well to know the details which might be overwhelming! A good book at the end.

I finally finished this book which was my March read. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy it, I was finding it hard to read anything of late.
She definitely was a no nonsense sort of person. It was lovely to read something written by her actual family. They didn't sugar coat it in anyway. I thought some o