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This Letter is to be dedicated entirely to Good News.

Posted on 28 December 2014 by TessQ

The letter today from 1798 is, in fact, very short!  Yet Good News for the family Austen it does indeed deliver, from the commonplace to the profound!  Jane Austen herself remarks on closing it that though she hasn’t time to … Continue reading →

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I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their Lives for Love, if they can

Posted on 27 December 2014 by TessQ

What a newsy letter we have to read today from 27th December 1808 (and continued on 28th December 1808 for which the link is also included here) written from Southampton.  Plans are afoot for a move to Chawton in the … Continue reading →

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I wish you a merry Christmas…

Posted on 24 December 2014 by TessQ

Jane Austen mentions Christmas a few times in passing in her letters, but would likely be astonished (and have some choice things to say) if she were to see the entire industry around it today — this simple quote (post … Continue reading →

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Your letter came quite as soon as I expected, and so your letters will always do, because I have made it a rule not to expect them till they come

Posted on 21 December 2014 by TessQ

Thankfully, Cassandra Austen’s letters did come often, so that we have her sister’s replies to enjoy!  This letter, written over two days on 18th and 19th December 1798 primarily offers Austen family updates, but also gives glimpses of their friends, … Continue reading →

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I thought it all over — & inspite of the shame of being so much older, felt with thankfulness that I was quite as happy now as then.—

Posted on 16 December 2014 by TessQ

HAPPY BIRTHDAY today, to Jane Austen — my favorite author, a woman of talent, wit, great understanding — and longevity!!!  Though today’s post title quotation was not made in reference to its being her birthday (it was written to her … Continue reading →

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P. &. P. is sold. Egerton gives £110 for it.– I would rather have had £150, but we could not both be pleased

Posted on 1 December 2014 by TessQ

Lots of letters this week to please us, though – December was a good month for corresponding, and it’s only just begun! We wave goodbye to November with some letters to Jane Austen’s nieces (that spill over in small bits to … Continue reading →

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…Then came the dinner & Mr Haden who brought good Manners & clever conversation… Fancy the scene!–And what is to be fancied next?… There’s happiness!

Posted on 25 November 2014 by TessQ

Lots of good snippets in a handful of letters for this week (I have given up on daily postings, I think, for a lack of time to get them done, but will post the remaining letters once a week hereon.)  There’s … Continue reading →

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I beleive I drank too much wine last night…– You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing by attributing it to this venial Error.–

Posted on 20 November 2014 by TessQ

I can commiserate with the feeling — had a late and ‘winey’ evening myself with friends last night and hoping my typing does not show the same effects that Jane Austen’s handwriting purportedly did in her letter to Cassandra of 20 … Continue reading →

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our indifference will soon be mutual, unless his regard, which appeared to spring from knowing nothing of me at first, is best supported by never seeing me

Posted on 18 November 2014 by TessQ

It seems love is in the air… or is it!?  Letters for today (including one begun yesterday which I had no opportunity to post as I was travelling all day) include some commentary in 1798 on Jane Austen’s dalliances (or … Continue reading →

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I am now laying in stock of intelligence to pour out on you as my share of Conversation

Posted on 16 November 2014 by TessQ

I have been laying in a “stock of intelligence” the last week, travelling out west to visit family and friends much as Jane Austen did (except mine is via air travel) so haven’t been able to post daily.  As a … Continue reading →

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