02377cam a2200337 i 4500 425100834 TxAuBib 20200512120000.0 200331s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019052573 9781250252203 1250252202 (OCoLC)1089266505 TxAuBib rda Hornby, Gill,. Miss Austen / Gill Hornby. First U.S. edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2020. pages ; cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""A deeply imagined and deeply moving novel. Reading it made me happy and weepy in equally copious amounts." -Karen Joy Fowler For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane. Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was? England, 1840. For the two decades following the death of her beloved sister, Jane, Cassandra Austen has lived alone, spending her days visiting friends and relations and quietly, purposefully working to preserve her sister's reputation. Now in her sixties and increasingly frail, Cassandra goes to stay with the Fowles of Kintbury, family of her long-dead fianc©♭, in search of a trove of Jane's letters. Dodging her hostess and a meddlesome housemaid, Cassandra eventually hunts down the letters and confronts the secrets they hold, secrets not only about Jane but about Cassandra herself. Will Cassandra bare the most private details of her life to the world, or commit her sister's legacy to the flames? Moving back and forth between the vicarage and Cassandra's vibrant memories of her years with Jane, interwoven with Jane's brilliantly reimagined lost letters, Miss Austen is the untold story of the most important person in Jane's life. With extraordinary empathy, emotional complexity, and wit, Gill Hornby finally gives Cassandra her due, bringing to life a woman as captivating as any Austen heroine"-- Provided by publisher. 20200512. Austen, Cassandra, 1773-1845 Fiction. Austen, Jane 1775-1817 Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Novels. TXEUL