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Hornby, Gill,

Miss Austen : a novel of the Austen sisters / Gill Hornby. - New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. - x, 270 pages : map ; 21 cm.

England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister's reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, in search of a trove of Jane's letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister's legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra's vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane's brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane's life.

ISBN: 9781250252210 1250252210

LCCN: 2019052573

Subjects--Personal Names:
Austen, Cassandra, 1773-1845 --Fiction.
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sisters--Fiction.
Reminiscing in old age--Fiction.
Authors--Fiction.
Novelists--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.