JANE AUSTEN: THE CHAWTON LETTERS

These thirteen letters collected by Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire and reproduced in this book give us intimate glimpses into her life in Bath and Chawton and on visits to London, many of their details finding echoes in her fiction. We learn here of her anxieties for the reception of Pride and Prejudice, her care in planning Mansfield Park and the hilarious negotiations over the publication of Emma. These artefacts make a delightful modern-day keepsake of correspondence from one of the world's best-loved writers.