A Memoir of Jane Austen

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Jane Austen Society Reports (1949– ) and Persuasions (1979– ) (the
journal of the Jane Austen Society of North America, JASNA)
regularly include articles of biographical interest on Jane Austen
and members of her family.
Persuasions On-Line has from vol. 22 (Winter 2001) updated bibliographies
(http://www.jasna.org/index.html).
A Memoir of Jane Austen
James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen (London:
Richard Bentley, 1870).
—— A Memoir of Jane Austen, to which is added Lady Susan and
fragments of two other unfinished tales by Miss Austen (2nd edn.,
London: Richard Bentley, 1871).
—— Memoir of Jane Austen, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1926): mainly a reprint of Ed.2, but omitting Lady Susan and
The Watsons.
—— A Memoir of Jane Austen, included as an appendix to Persuasion,
ed. D. W. Harding (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1965).
—— A Memoir of Jane Austen, with an introduction by Fay Weldon
(reprint of R. W. Chapman’s 1926 edn.; London: Century Hutchinson,
1987; and Folio Society, 1989).
—— A Memoir of Jane Austen, with an introduction by David Gilson
(facsimile reprint of 1870 edn.; London: Routledge/Thoemmes
Press, 1994).
Contemporary Reviews of J. E. Austen-Leigh’s Memoir, Ed.1
[Margaret O. Oliphant], Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 107 (1870),
290–313 (reviewed with A. G. L’Estrange’s Life of Mary Russell
Mitford).
[Richard Simpson], North British Review, 52 (1870), 129–52.
[Henry F. Chorley], Quarterly Review, 128 (1870), 196–218 (with
L’Estrange’s Life of Mitford).
Contemporary Reviews of Ed.2
[Anna Isabella Thackeray], Cornhill Magazine, 24 (1871), 158–74.
Extracts from several of the above reviews can be found in Southam
(ed.), Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage, vol. 1 (1968).
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