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Title: Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters
A Family Record

Author: William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

Release Date: September 7, 2007 [eBook #22536]

Language: English

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JANE AUSTEN

HER LIFE AND LETTERS

A Family Record

by

WILLIAM AUSTEN-LEIGH

and

RICHARD ARTHUR AUSTEN-LEIGH

With a Portrait

London
Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place
1913
[_All rights reserved_]

[Illustration: J. Zoffany R. A. pinxit Emery Walker Ph. sc.

Jane Austen

see p. 62]

PREFACE

Since 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh[1] published his _Memoir of Jane
Austen_, considerable additions have been made to the stock of
information availab