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The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen.(Brief article)(Book review)

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| September 03, 2007 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen SYRIE JAMES. Avon A, $13.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-144369-5

James speculates in her easy-reading debut on a romance between Austen and a landed British gentleman. The prologue presents the narrative as a long-lost journal Austen kept between 1815 and 1817, recently discovered during a renovation at Chawton Manor House and annotated by Oxford University Austen scholar Mary I. Jesse, whose footnotes appear throughout. The first-person account describes how Mr. Ashford, the son of a baronet, saves the spinster writer from a climbing accident after her father's death. The two meet …

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