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The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

On this day in 1816. . .

One hundredth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. As we Janeites never tire of pointing out, Jane Austen...

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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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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...

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Mar 14, 2022

Seventieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The author of Pride and Prejudice may have been an anonymous...

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Dec 6, 2021

Fifty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s an occupational hazard of the writing life that once...

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Jan 23, 2020

Forty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s brothers were a reproductively prolific lot, at...

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Jul 15, 2019

Twenty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s books contain few young children, and those...

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Oct 30, 2017

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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