Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Beechey, Thomas Lawrence and Thomas Gainsborough. The first full account of Jane Austen by someone who knew her, written by her nephew fifty years after her death from the memories of the family. Almost everything the world believes about her private life comes from this book, including the things it left out on purpose. This edition adds 60 bound plates of paintings from 1770–1835, among them Constable, Turner, Hoppner and Raeburn, plus three illustrations restored and coloured.