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Title: Letters to Alice : On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon, Jenifer Smith ISBN: 0-521-58928-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00

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Summary: An excellent tribute to Jane Austen
Comment: Literature, evolving from author to author, as each author moves forward, using the shades of meaning generated by previous authors, the associations around a word, a phrase growing over time. On first reading jane austen evokes all those associations, and explains these concepts.

The book is in the form of an aunt's letters to her niece, an aunt who has lived an interesting life, and wandered lonely (as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills). Her niece is just starting her eductaion, she likes literature but is not a fan of Jane Austen, not yet. The letters are well-written, fresh and vibrant, and they take us through literature, the life of Jane Austen, the influences of others on her, and her influence on others.

There are many echoes to be found in the story, and the letters, and the writing. There are echoes of Jane Austen, of course, but also writers of other ages, from Homer to Greene.

The title is reminiscent of "On first reading Chapman's Homer" by Keats, and like Keats, we - on first reading Jane Austen - feel "like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken". That is the feeling this book tries to evoke in us.

All lovers of literature, and especially of Jane Austen, do discover this moon revolving around the world of Jane Austen.