Book summary

As might be expected, Jane Austen was a sharp and witty letter-writer. Fortunately, she was also a prolific correspondent. This collection of her letters illuminates the brilliantly clever young woman who wrote some of the world's greatest novels.

Media reviews

"The resultant book affirms that, in an era often agitated by factionalism among Austen scholars, the task of editorship fell to the ablest and sanest of them all."