Hardback. 276pp. a study of the Austen family from Jane’s great grandmother, left a widow with 6 children in 1704 to Jane’s nephews and nieces living well into the nineteenth century. The lives of this extended family and drawn from their letters and other sources provide a history of many of the middle class families of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Small selection of plates. Very clean and neat. Dust jacket is slightly sunned to spine.