15865-2 Miss Read which included exchanges with friends

which included exchanges with friends like Handel and Swift

Full of b/w illustrations and photos

This is the world Austen grew up in - all the more charming for Janeites

The editors and several others contribute essays

combined with historical commentary and trivia about Austen and her novels

15865-2 Miss Read which included exchanges with friendsThe Leslie Stephen Lecture Delivered Before the University of Cambridge on 1 May 1935. Very early in the career of the biographer who later wrote A Portrait of Jane Austen (1978). This lecture gives a fascinating perspective on the state of Austen thought in the 1930's. January 1936 reprint of the first edition by Cambridge, with a Macmillan sticker pasted on front cover. Cream colored wrapper with wear to spine and overhanging edges. Light foxing on