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| Jane Austen (Penguin Lives) | Not a long or comprehensive bio, but it was well written. A very human look at Jane Austen | Carol Shields | Life & Family
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| Jane Austen : Her Life and Letters, a Family Record | Revised and enlarged by Deirdre LeFaye | William Austen-Leigh | Life & Family
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| Jane Austen A Life | Biography | Claire Tomalin | Life & Family
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| Jane Austen's Letters | Excellent compilation of Jane Austen's letters to family and friends | Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye | Life & Family
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| Jane Austen's Sailor Brothers | It is very short on details, but there are some interesting bits. It quotes from JA's letters as well as Francis' letters and his ship log entries. There is less information about Charles Austen (the other sailor brother) than about Francis, but Charles' family did live on board with him at times and there is some discussion about that | J. H. Hubback | Life & Family
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| Jane Austen: A Family Record | First published in 1913. Loads of information about the whole Austen family, their life and times. Very detailed - not a pick up and read in ten seconds type of book. | Deirdre Le Faye | Life & Family
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| Jane and Her Gentlemen: Jane Austen and the Men in Her Life and Novels | Includes chapters about the men in her life (family and acquaintances) and also the men in her fiction, the heroes and cads are reviewed and judged. | Audrey Hawkridge | Life & Family
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| Memoir of Jane Austen, by Her Nephew | . | James E. Austen-Leigh | Life & Family
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| The World of Jane Austen | Describes her homes and the places she visited in Hampshire as well as Kent, London and others. It has many pictures of them as well. | Nigel Nicolson | Life & Family
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