From WSJbooks: In “Miss Austen,” novelist GillHornby imagines what might have been in the letters that Jane Austen’s sister, Cassandra, destroyed late in her life. MElizabethLowry reviews.
Twenty-three years after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, her older sister, Cassandra, burned the less discreet portions of her famous sibling’s private correspondence. It appears that she did a thorough job. The Jane Austen who has been preserved for posterity is largely a creature of surfaces.
We know a great deal about her social life and her friendships but very little about her creative and emotional struggles. In 1869 Austen’s nephew and first biographer insisted that “few changes and no great crisis” ever troubled his aunt, and nobody has ever really been in a position to say otherwise. Mission accomplished, you might...
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