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PITHY QUOTE FROM Austen: Letters

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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

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The Letters of Jane Austen

ISBN: 978-1-57085-560-3

Language: English

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"Reading Jane’s Letters"
Pride and Prejudice, Illustration by Hugh Thomson

List of Contents

Austen, Jane. Jane Austen's Letters. Collected and edited by Deirdre Le Faye. 3rd ed. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.


Notes

Deidre 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.

—Claire Tomalin
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