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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2011
As she recalls her own memories of Aunt Jane to help brother James Edward Austen Leigh construct his Memoir of Jane Austen, Caroline Austen questions the possibility of ever representing a ‘life’ that already seems too obscure to recover. ‘I am sure you will do justice to what there is – but I feel that it must be a difficult task to dig up the materials, so carefully have they been buried out of our sight by the past generation.’ She dismisses the more obvious ‘materials’ at hand: ‘There is nothing in those letters which I have seen that would be acceptable to the public – They were very well expressed, and they must have been very interesting to those who received them – but they detailed chiefly home and family events: and she seldom committed herself even to an opinion – so that to strangers they could be no transcript of her mind – they would not feel that they knew her any the better for having read them –.’
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