On this day in 1801. . .
Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 3, 2022
On this day in 1813. . .
Eighty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Sometimes you read a famous author’s correspondence and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 24, 2022
On this day in 1798. . .
Eightieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Nowadays, an unpublished writer can upload her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 12, 2022
Jane Austen in love . . . maybe
Nine months have passed since we learned the happy news that a cache of priceless books and manuscripts, including two Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 1, 2022
On this day in 1796. . .
Seventy-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In December of 1775, the Rev. George Austen wrote to a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 18, 2022
On this day in 1814. . .
Seventy-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. “Write what you know,” aspiring authors are counseled in...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 14, 2022
On this day(ish) in 1814. . .
Seventy-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter-writing culture of Jane Austen’s day was...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 6, 2022
On this day in 1811. . .
Seventy-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s novels famously contain few detailed...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 12, 2022
On this day in 1801. . .
Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 21, 2022
On this day in 1805. . .
Seventy-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Leigh-Perrot, who was married to the older brother of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 14, 2022
On this day in 1817. . .
Seventy-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters The letter that Jane Austen wrote to her 11-year-old niece...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 24, 2022
Women's letters, women's lives
Texts and emails have much to recommend them, but it’s hard not to wonder how much their prevalence will handicap future biographers....
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