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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.	PAGE
Introductory Remarks—Birth of Jane Austen—Her Family Connections—Their Influence on her Writings.	1
CHAPTER II.
Description of Steventon—Life at Steventon—Changes of Habits and Customs in the last Century	18
CHAPTER III.
Early Compositions—Friends at Ashe—A very Old Letter—Lines on the Death of Mrs. Lefroy—Observations on Jane Austen's Letter-writing—Letters.	41
CHAPTER IV.
Removal from Steventon—Residence at Bath and at Southampton—Settling at Chawton	66
CHAPTER V.
Description of Jane Austen's person, character, and tastes	82