Part 56 (2/2)

['Jane Austen,' pp 197-229]

1884 _Letters of Jane Austen_ Edited, with an introduction and critical remarks, by Edward, Lord Brabourne Two volumes London: Richard Bentley & Son

[This includes: (1) a series of letters froht; (3) letters from Jane to Anna Austen (Mrs B Lefroy); and (4) two letters froht, just after Jane's death]

1885 _Dictionary of National Biography_ London: Smith, Elder & Co 'Jane Austen,' by L[eslie] S[tephen]

[This account, based on the _Memoir_ and the _Letters_ (which latter are said to be trivial and to give no new facts), is accurate: except in stating that Jane was the youngest of seven children, and that she went to Castle Square, Southampton, in 1805]

1886 _Letters to Dead Authors_ By Andrew Lang London: Longmans, Green & Co 8vo

['To Jane Austen,' pp 75-85]

1888 _Chapters from Jane Austen_ Edited by Oscar Fay Adams Boston: Lee & Shepard

1889 _Jane Austen_ By S F Malden [Mrs Charles Malden]

'Eminent Women' series London: W H

Allen pp 210 8vo

[Much space is devoted to an abstract of the novels]

1890 _Life of Jane Austen_ By Goldwin Smith 'Great Writers' series London: Walter Scott

pp 195-v 8vo

[Contains a bibliography compiled by J P

Anderson]

1891 _The Story of Jane Austen's Life_ By Oscar Fay Ada & Co

pp v-277 8vo

[Includes a bibliography]

1892 _The Novels of Jane Austen_ Edited by R Brimley Johnson; with illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F C Tilney Ten volumes London: J M Dent & Co

[The first volume of _Sense and Sensibility_ contains an account of Jane Austen, pp xi-xxxi This was the first really independent issue of the novels--Bentley's edition having previously held the field Mr Johnson, as a rule, followed the text of the latest edition which appeared in the author's lifetiood many new misprints of their own]

1894 _Pride and Prejudice_ With a preface by George Saintsbury, and illustrations by Hugh Thoe Allen pp xxvii-476 8vo

1895 _Charades, etc Written a Hundred Tears Ago_ By Jane Austen and her family London: Spottiswoode & Co pp 34 8vo

1895 _Duologues and Scenes fro-room Performance_ By Rosina Filippi (Mrs Dowson); with illustrations by Miss Fletcher London: J M

Dent & Co pp xv-139 8vo

1895-7 _Jane Austen's Novels_ With illustrations by Hugh Thomson [but _Pride and Prejudice_ is illustrated by C E Brock] and introductions by Austin Dobson Five volumes London: Macmillan & Co 8vo

[These volumes were afterwards (1902-4) reprinted and issued in Macmillan's 'Illustrated Pocket Classics']