JA
's most important relationship was with her sister, Cassandra
, who after Jane's death called her the sun of my life.
Honan, Park. Jane Austen: Her Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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The two shared a room (though not a bed) and corresponded regularly...
Leisure and Society
Jane Austen
Generations of JA
readers lacked any image of her except silhouettes which give little away, a back view, and an unsatisfactory, unfinished sketch by her sister Cassandra
. From this, various new versions have been...
Textual Production
Jane Austen
John Murray
was apparently planning a collected edition of JA
's novels in 1831, when Cassandra Austen
wrote on 20 May with detailed queries about it, but the project did not go through. A year...
