Question for Janeites

[pegkerr]

If I wish to obtain a collection of the letters of Jane Austen, which edition should I get?

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The most complete possible--Cassandra destroyed most of the good letters, but there are shorter versions out there. I think them unsatisfying.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did know that. I know that Jane loved Cassandra more than perhaps anyone, but I still have trouble forgiving Cassandra for such a crime.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too--Charlotte Austen and Charlotte Bronte both. (The latter for burning all her sisters' juvenilia about their other world...but she kept her own. But Anne's and Emily's sounded so much better!)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

CASSANDRA Austen! (Argh, and it's only Wednesday and my brain is already gone...)

[darkthirty.livejournal.com]

Deirdre Le Fay's collected letters have been reprinted by the folio society, but the originals are available too. Try www.abebooks.com.