1865, aged ninety-one.

* * * * *

Shortly before the end of her life, Jane Austen wrote on a slip of
paper:--

Profits of my novels, over and above the L600 in the Navy Fives.

L _s._
Residue from the 1st edit. of _Mansfield Park_
remaining in Henrietta St., March 1816 13 7

Received from Egerton, on 2nd edit. of _Sense
and S._, March 1816 12 15

February 21, 1817, First Profits of _Emma_ 38 18

March 7, 1817. From Egerton--2nd edit. of _S.
and S._ 19 13

_Northanger Abbey_ and _Persuasion_ were published in four volumes by
John Murray in 1818, and to the former was prefixed a short biographical
notice of the author from the pen of Henry Austen. In 1832 Mr. Bentley
bought the copyright of all the novels, except _Pride and Prejudice_
(which Jane Austen had sold outright to Mr. Egerton), from Henry and
Cassandra Austen, the joint proprietors, for the sum of two hundred and
fifty pounds. Mr. Bentley must also have bought from Mr. Egerton's
executors the copyright of _Pride and Prejudice_, for he proceeded to
issue a complete edition of the novels with a biographical notice (also
by Henry) containing a few extra facts not mentioned in the original
edition of _Northanger Abbey_.

(James) Edward Austen, who added 'Leigh' to his name on succeeding to
the property of Scarlets in 1836, wrote (in 1869-70) the _Memoir_ of his
aunt which has been so often used in these pages, and which, as the work
of three eyewitnesses,[371] enjoys an authority greater than that of any
other account of her. Its publication coincided with the beginning of a
great advance in her fame, and we think it may be claimed that it was an
important contributory cause of that advance. Before that date, an
appreciation of her genius was rather the special possession of small
literary circles and individual families; since that date it has been
widely spread both in England and in America. From her death to 1870,
there was only one complete edition of her works, and nothing, except a
few articles and reviews, was written about her. Since 1870, editions,
lives, memoirs, &c., have been almost too numerous to count. We, who are
adding to this stream of writings, cannot induce ours