![]() ![]() There is nothing like reading these late at night, Jane Austen hovering over your shoulder. Jane Austen’s Letters are an absolute must-have in your collection. Jane Austen to Cassandra, from Sloan St London, 25 April 1811 – British Library Darcy someone REAL? was Elizabeth Bennet her alter ego? was MR COLLINS drawn from life? – or to have the letters to her brother Henry and his to Egerton – but alas! we have very little, just a few comments scattered among the surviving letters. ![]() She sold the copyright outright for £110, and did not incur other expenses in its publication, as she did in the three other works published in her lifetime How we would love to know her thoughts on this road to publication! – how we would love to have her letters written while in the process of the writing to give us some idea of her imagination at work – where WAS the model for Pemberley? was Mr. First completed in 1797 (and called First Impressions) and rejected by the publisher her father took the manuscript to, Austen reworked her draft over time and submitted it to Thomas Egerton, the publishing house of her Sense & Sensibility, in 1812 (it was published on January 28, 1813). ![]() The publishing history of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most popular book, then and now, is an interesting study in the book trade of early 19th century England. ![]()
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