Jane Austen is believed to have written thousands of letters. Just 161 survive, collected in various compendiums—familial and scholarly, deciphered and illustrated, economic, and expensive. The Hawai‘i Region explore a handful of the letters for its July 12 Reading Group online discussion.
Participants from Hawai‘i and across the continent read excerpts and speculated about the sentiments behind the words.
Published collections of Austen’s letters, from the somewhat sanitized family volume through comprehensive and scholarly editions, available at a range of prices from a variety vendors and sources, including the Guttenberg Project,
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