Happy birthday indeed
For most people, this past year has been at best pretty bad and at worst utterly tragic. On the bright side, however, the challenge of pandemic quarantine seems to have inspired the partners of Janeites to step up their gift-giving game. Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British graphic designer gave his Janeite girlfriend a handcrafted Jane Austen Monopoly set as a second-anniversary gift. And now a Philadelphia-area husband has marked his wife’s fortieth birthday