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I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their Lives for Love, if they can
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 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.—
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
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!
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.–
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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I am now laying in stock of intelligence to pour out on you as my share of Conversation
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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To sit in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room is a luxurious sensation
Oh! How I can relate to today’s title quotation, taken from Jane Austen’s letter (a continuation from the previous day) of 7 November 1813. I’m a little late with that one, and the letter written over two days from 8 … Continue reading
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[I am] very snug, in my own room, lovely morng, excellent fire, fancy me
Doesn’t that sound lovely?… snug in a warm room on a lovely morning? I’d say “fancy me” too! Today’s letter is from 1813 and chock full of lovely snippets as Jane Austen engages in visits, pleasant parties, concerts and a ‘day of … Continue reading
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the sentence had been made ever since yesterday, & I think forms a very good beginning
Jane Austen was in fine form in her letter to Cassandra of 1 November 1800 — so many quotable lines I could have used for my post title! You must read it to appreciate them. The one I did choose … Continue reading
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Miss Jane Austen’s tears have flowed over each sweet sketch…
Ah! But are they tears of sorrow, joy, frustration, or perhaps just… boredom? Jane Austen’s brief letter to niece Anna, written sometime between 29th and 31st October 1812, concerns a novel by Mrs Hunter that they have been reading together … Continue reading
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