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The Letters of Jane AustenISBN: 978-1-57085-560-3 |
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"Reading Jane’s Letters"
Pride and Prejudice, Illustration by Hugh Thomson
Last year I had for some time the Sensation of a Peck Loaf resting on my head, & they talked of cupping me, but I came off with a dose or two of calomel & have never heard of it since.
The Letters of Jane Austen. 1813, September: 89. To Cassandra Austen |
Austen, Jane. Jane Austen's Letters. Collected and edited by Deirdre Le Faye. 3rd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. NotesDeidre Le Faye works at the British Museum. She is the author of Jane Austen: A Family Record (1989). |
[Austen's letters] give glances and hints at her life from the age of 20 to her death at 41, the years in which she wrote her six imperishable novels. |
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