Jane Austen’s Latest
Marilyn Butler, 21 May 1981
Jane Austen’s ‘Sir Charles Grandison’
edited by Brian Southam.
Oxford, 150 pp., £7.95, March 1981,0 19 812637 9 Show More
edited by Brian Southam.
Oxford, 150 pp., £7.95, March 1981,
“... new play, apparently Jane Austen’s version of a work she had admired from childhood, Samuel Richardson’s Sir Charles Grandison. It was actually a discovery only in a manner of speaking, since the manuscript was never properly lost. It had been handed down among the descendants of Jane Austen’s niece Anna Lefroy, born Anna Austen in 1793, the eldest ... ”