Jane Austen, a Family Record by William Austen-Leigh My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was another book on my required reading list in preparation for my graduate thesis. It certainly is a family record and it is rather dry. I must confess that I read this biography with a grain of salt and a constant mental reminder that Jane’s immediate surviving family members edited the sections of her letters they used in their published biography of their aunt Jane. Since the initial publication of this biography (by her nephew’s son and grandson) many more of Jane’s letters have resurfaced and the truth came to light that even those sections…