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It was mentioned as a biography of Jane Austen, which discussed her personal journal and letter writing, and her writing process for the novel Emma. It was written by her nephew.
OK, so this is from, well, it's called a memoir. I don't know this book, a memoir of Jane Austen by... OK. Oh, it's by one of her nephews. Austen Lay? Is that a nephew?
— Episode: 132. Jane Austen, Game Theorist
Episode: 132. Jane Austen, Game Theorist
It was mentioned as a biography of Jane Austen, which discussed her personal journal and letter writing, and her writing process for the novel Emma. It was written by her nephew.
OK, so this is from, well, it's called a memoir. I don't know this book, a memoir of Jane Austen by... OK. Oh, it's by one of her nephews. Austen Lay? Is that a nephew?
Yeah, exactly right. He was like the first person who really kind of memorialized and kind of gave a biography of Austen.
So he kind of, he's like the beginning of Austenmania started with him.
OK, so he writes that before she began Emma that she wrote, I guess, in a journal or a letter, I am going to take a heroine, referring to Emma, whom no one but myself will much like.