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Jane Austen's Letters: facts and fictions.(AGM 2005: Milwaukee)

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20050101
Author:Bander, Elaine

ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S EDITION of Jane Austen's Letters over thirty years ago, I felt that I had fallen upon another Austen novel--one, it is true, that contained far too many minor characters with a confusing repetition of names and whose plot was decidedly desultory, not at all like Austen's tightly-constructed novels, nor at all to her sister Cassandra's taste, for "Your Aunt C. does not like desultory novels," Jane Austen wrote her niece Anna (10-18 August 1814). Nevertheless her comic, ironic tone was unmistakable, and the settings and situations were engagingly ...

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