Jane Austen: A Family Record

Deirdre Le Faye has been actively researching the life and times of Jane Austen and her family for the last thirty years. In 1995 she prepared a completely new edition of Jane Austen's Letters. She has also written several other books: a short illustrated biography, Jane Austen (1998), Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin', the Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide (2002), and Jane Austen: The World of her Novels (2002), as well as numerous articles in literary journals.

Illustrations; Foreword Joan Impey; Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes and Abbreviations; Chronology of Jane Austen's life; 1. Austens and Leighs, 1600–1764; 2. Deane and Steventon, 1764–75; 3. India and France, 1752–85; 4. Childhood and Steventon, 1775–86; 5. Family Life, 1786–92; 6. First compositions, 1787–92; 7. The young Jane, 1792–6; 8. Later years at Steventon, 1796–9; 9. The Leigh-Perrots and Bath, 1799–1801; 10. Bath and the West Country, 1801–4; 11. Bath and Southampton, 1804–8; 12. Southampton and Chawton, 1808–9; 13. First publication, 1809–12; 14. Pride and Prejudice, 1813; 15. Mansfield Park and Emma, 1814–15; 16. Emma and Persuasion, 1816–17; 17. Biography, 1817 and after; References; Bibliography; Family pedigrees; Origin and descent of biographical information on Jane Austen.