ABSTRACT
Since it may very likely happen that these volumes may fall into the hands of persons who have not read Mr. Austen Leigh’s ‘Memoir,’ it is but right that, with the assistance which it affords me, I should, without attempting a regular biography, give some brief account of an existence to which, in my humble judgment, the world is so much indebted. I have already described the relations by whom Jane was surrounded, and given such an account of her family as it seemed necessary to attach to her letters. I have not as yet, however, spoken of the home in which she was born or of the county in which the greater part of her life was passed.
