Sister-Sister
Terry Castle, 3 August 1995
Jane Austen’s Letters
edited by Deirde Le Faye.
Oxford, 621 pp., £30, March 1995,0 19 811764 7 Show More
edited by Deirde Le Faye.
Oxford, 621 pp., £30, March 1995,
“... 161 Austen letters are known to exist today, and many only in Cassandra-mangled form. Deirdre Le Faye, editor of the excellent new revised Oxford edition of the letters, defends Cassandra somewhat backhandedly, suggesting that her weeding-out and censorship ‘shows itself more in the complete destruction of letters rather than in the excision of individual ... ”
