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PREFACE
Since 1870-1, when J. E. Austen Leigh[1] published his Memoir of Jane Austen, considerable additions have
been made to the stock of information available for her biographers. Of these fresh sources of knowledge the
set of letters from Jane to Cassandra, edited by Lord Brabourne, has been by far the most important. These
letters are invaluable as mémoires pour servir; although they cover only the comparatively rare periods when
the two sisters were separated, and although Cassandra purposely destroyed many of the letters likely to prove
the most interesting, from a distaste for publicity.

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