JANE AUSTEN'S WORKS.
| Sense and Sensibility | 2 vols. |
| Pride and Prejudice | 2 vols. |
| Mansfield Park | 2 vols. |
| Emma | 2 vols. |
| Northanger Abbey | 1 vol. |
| Persuasion | 1 vol. |
| Lady Susan—The Watsons With a Memoir | 1 vol. |
| Letters | 1 vol. |
From a Painting in the possession of the Rev. Morland Rice,of Bramber.THE LETTERS
OF
JANE AUSTEN
Selected from the Compilation of her
Great Nephew
EDWARD, LORD BRADBOURNE
By SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1908
Great Nephew
EDWARD, LORD BRADBOURNE
By SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1908
[Transcriber's Note: While the title page gives credit to Lord Bradbourne, the actualtitle of Edward was Lord Brabourne.]
Copyright, 1892,
By Roberts Brothers.
Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
By Roberts Brothers.
Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
PREFACE.
The recent cult for Miss Austen, which has resultedin no less than ten new editions of hernovels within a decade and three memoirs by differenthands within as many years, have made thefacts of her life familiar to most readers. It was ashort life, and an uneventful one as viewed fromthe standpoint of our modern times, when steamand electricity have linked together the ends of theearth, and the very air seems teeming with news,agitations, discussions. We have barely time torecover our breath between post and post; and themorning paper with its statements of disaster andits hints of still greater evils to be, is scarcely out-lived,when, lo! in comes the evening issue, contradictingthe news of the morning, to be sure, butfull of omens and auguries of its own to strew ourpillows with the seed of wakefulness.
To us, publications come hot and hot from thepress. Teleg
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