Description: Full text of 1884 Brabourne edition of Jane Austen's letters, mostly to her sister Cassandra; includes Brabourne's notes and appendices, and some links to other resources on the Jane Austen info site.
The dedication is to Queen Victoria. (In 1946 a great-grandson of Lord Brabourne married a great-great-granddaughter of Victoria.)
I've restored a number of small passages originally omitted from the printed letters (based on later editions), and also added some extracts from letters printed in Austen-Leigh's Memoir . In addition to this HTML version, the Letters are also available as a single plain ASCII e-text file, compressed in binary .zip format <320793 bytes> -- see explanation of ".zip" here . (Everything in the plain ASCII e-text may be considered in the public domain.)
Letters of Jane Austen, edited with an introduction and critical remarks by Edward, Lord Brabourne (London: Bentley, 1884). [This e-text represents the version reprinted in vols. 11 and 12 of The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen (Complete in Twelve Volumes) , edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson (New York: 1906).]