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Una delle poche lettere rimaste di Jane Austen
Austen wrote the letter to her sister Cassandra in 1813, the same year her second novel Pride and Prejudice was published (Image: Bonhams)
Written at the peak of Austen’s literary powers in 1813, following the publication of Pride and Prejudice, the letter contains the same use of language, wit and charm that appears throughout her seven novels.
She writes to Cassandra about a variety of topics including the health of her mother (“no longer in need of leeches”), music lessons, the latest fashion for caps, and a shopping trip with her brother for Wedgewood porcelain,
A trip to the dentist with her two nieces Marianne and Fanny is described in particularly vivid detail:
“The poor Girls & their Teeth! … Marianne had two taken out after all … we heard each of the two sharp hasty screams,—Fanny’s teeth were cleaned too—& pretty as they are, Spence found something to do to them … but I think he must be a Lover of Teeth & Money & Mischief to parade about Fannys. I would not have had him look at mine for a shilling a tooth & double it.”
Austen was the first writer to use the word coze – meaning an intimate, friendly chat – in print, when it appeared in Mansfield Park in 1814.
La parola “cozy” arriva da Jane Austen
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Esistono solo due disegni raffiguranti sicuramente Jane Austen: un ritratto e un acquerello in cui la di vede seduta di spalle con un vestito blu. Entrambi sono stati fatti dalla sorella Cassandra.
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