JA
's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously together, through the agency of her sister Cassandra
: the title-page said 1818.
Fergus, Jan. “The Professional Woman Writer”. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Jane Austen
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...