On this day in 1816. . .
Eighty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites take the lives of Jane Austen’s characters very,...
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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
- Dec 6, 2021
On this day in 1814. . .
Seventieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The author of Pride and Prejudice may have been an anonymous...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 23, 2020
On this day in 1817. . .
Fifty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s an occupational hazard of the writing life that once...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 15, 2019
On this day in 1816. . .
Forty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s brothers were a reproductively prolific lot, at...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 30, 2017
On this day in 1815. . .
Twenty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s books contain few young children, and those...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 26, 2015
On this day in 1817. . .
Third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. The letter Jane Austen wrote to her eleven-year-old niece, Caroline...
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