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Letters of Jane Austen Volume vol 2 Jane Austen Books
I'm a Janeite, so this was my kind of book. I think it would be too slow and repetitive for anyone not in love with Jane Austen, her people and her time and place. I liked being in on her somewhat snide evaluations of people she meets and situations she encounters, and the letters do soften the 'authoress,' Jane Austen, for me and let me see more of the daughter and sister, Jane Austen. I loved the little details of daily life, writing to her sister and asking for two pair of stockings or some gloves from a particular shop or supplier, the contemplation of new dresses, the yardage to be purchased and then given to the dressmaker, the women of the family sitting in the parlor at their 'work,' making a dozen shirts (by hand with tiny stitches) for a brother soon to go to sea, the breakfasts, teas, dinners - with the food and drink seldom described. You'd think they didn't eat! But then, this is England, not France. Anyway, the book is a time travel vehicle. People die. Babies are born. Mothers die. Fathers remarry. There are constant flirtations and courtings. There is the endless finagling for the right mate, someone of equal status with money, and not too awful. Jane and her sister don't seem to take the deaths very hard. I suppose with someone always dying, and untimely death being so much harder to avoid,it was a matter of course.Jane's own death is only apparent to us by the cessation of the letters after a period of letters in which she alludes to, but never complains about, a growing disability and fatigue (and I suppose pain). She, who was always out on a fine morning walking somewhere, miles and miles across the countryside or hours and hours in town and city, tells her sister that she is no longer able to walk out and has to be helped to sit outdoors in the garden. I don't think she was yet 50 when she died. I also know that she had work in progress when she died. What have we missed.
I loved this book, couldn't put it down. Just the right amount of explanation and information from the editor.
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Letters of Jane Austen Volume vol 2 Jane Austen Books Reviews
Her letters teach so much about the customs during the regency era.
Fleshed out the picture of Jane Austen which I had formed from her writings. A witty, acerbic, touching collection which I enjoyed very much.
The letters of Jane Austin are observant, witty, bitchy and beautifully written. Can't think why it took me so long to get round to reading them.
I enjoy Jane Austen's books, which I read and re-read to the point of knowing them by heart and still discovering something new in them every time. The letters gave me a wonderful insight in her personality, which was fun, and caustic, and smart, and very feminine. They also made me understand her books much better.
Don’t bother the font is too small to comfortably read. I’m not old by any means and this was just tortuous on the eyes.
Jane Austen's letters were always witty, often vitriolic, but never dull.
To her sister Cassandra "I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."
To a friend "At the bottom of Kingsdown Hill we met a gentleman in a buggy, who, on minute examination, turned out to be Dr. Hall — and Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."
To Cassandra "Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene."
Not to read Jane Austen's letters, if you are a lover of her novels, is to miss out a rich and delicious feast.
The helpful notes by the erudite editor, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, make this book a delight. Highly recommended.
I deliberately took several days to read these letters, because I wanted to draw out the experience as long as possible. We are told that Cassandra destroyed many if not most of Jane Austen's correspondence, which makes the ones we have even more precious. After the supposed sensoring done by her beloved sister we still have an intriguing glimpse of her personality and humor and her affection for her family. I am reviewing the kindle addition, which is probably not the best way to read these letters. The footnotes left much to be desired and lines and pages were broken up badly. Still, the content is worth five stars. Most of the names in the novels show up at some time or other in the letters and her advice to her niece about writing is priceless. I recommend this to everyone who admires Jane Austen's writing and longs to understand her better.
I'm a Janeite, so this was my kind of book. I think it would be too slow and repetitive for anyone not in love with Jane Austen, her people and her time and place. I liked being in on her somewhat snide evaluations of people she meets and situations she encounters, and the letters do soften the 'authoress,' Jane Austen, for me and let me see more of the daughter and sister, Jane Austen. I loved the little details of daily life, writing to her sister and asking for two pair of stockings or some gloves from a particular shop or supplier, the contemplation of new dresses, the yardage to be purchased and then given to the dressmaker, the women of the family sitting in the parlor at their 'work,' making a dozen shirts (by hand with tiny stitches) for a brother soon to go to sea, the breakfasts, teas, dinners - with the food and drink seldom described. You'd think they didn't eat! But then, this is England, not France. Anyway, the book is a time travel vehicle. People die. Babies are born. Mothers die. Fathers remarry. There are constant flirtations and courtings. There is the endless finagling for the right mate, someone of equal status with money, and not too awful. Jane and her sister don't seem to take the deaths very hard. I suppose with someone always dying, and untimely death being so much harder to avoid,it was a matter of course.
Jane's own death is only apparent to us by the cessation of the letters after a period of letters in which she alludes to, but never complains about, a growing disability and fatigue (and I suppose pain). She, who was always out on a fine morning walking somewhere, miles and miles across the countryside or hours and hours in town and city, tells her sister that she is no longer able to walk out and has to be helped to sit outdoors in the garden. I don't think she was yet 50 when she died. I also know that she had work in progress when she died. What have we missed.
I loved this book, couldn't put it down. Just the right amount of explanation and information from the editor.
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