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Anna Austen

Anna

also: Anna, Mrs. B. Lefroy, Anna Lefroy, Mrs. Benjamin Lefroy, Mrs. Lefroy

James's daughter, herself a novel-writer at twenty; Jane's letters of 1814 critiquing her manuscript are Austen's fullest surviving statements on the art -- 'three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on'.

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Light Verse from the Memoir Verse · 1 mention
Opinions of Mansfield Park Documents · 2 mentions