15865-2 Miss Read Many interesting insights into other

Many interesting insights into other notable people of the times

The editors and several others contribute essays

combined with historical commentary and trivia about Austen and her novels

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

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15865-2 Miss Read Many interesting insights into otherThe 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