Monthly Archives: February 2014

Today’s letters were not necessarily written ‘today’… they are fragments only of letters written to niece Anna Lefroy in 1815, and identified only as having been written sometime between late February and March (1st letter) or late February and July … Continue reading →

February saw a gap of several days when no letters were written, but there was a short one to Jane Austen’s niece Caroline, dashed off on 26th February 1817: 26 February 1817

Fanny Knight gets a bit of chastisement and advice from her aunt in today’s 1817 continuation of a letter from the day before… and the 1807 letter continues as well with bits about yet another household move in Southampton.  Times … Continue reading →

How many of us would love to be the recipient of a letter from Jane Austen that started out with these words and went on to praise for a paragraph or two! (even if with a little teasing as well) … Continue reading →

It’s been several days without a letter, but today we have one that Jane Austen wrote to Martha Lloyd in 1813 – catching up on the doings of family and friends… 16 February 1813

As we have not had Letters from Jane Austen for a few days, and furthermore as today is Valentine’s Day — as a treat I am reproducing below the well-known (and well-loved) letter that Frederick Wentworth writes for Anne after … Continue reading →

Today’s letter in 1813, as so many, is full of little news about the family and their large acquaintance (I beleive they must dine with at least four and twenty families…) — but we also glimpse again the author’s pleasure … Continue reading →

After a gap of silence for some days, letters resume today! An answer to one from Cassandra, this one replies to all the little news of the day as her family settles in to their home in Southampton – and … Continue reading →

…and yet, to judge by today’s letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, she is upon the whole quite pleased with her recent publication… called Pride and Prejudice!  If only she could have known how “upon the whole quite … Continue reading →