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They do seem to be selling more selective letters. RW CHapman's Letters are available for $30 on ebay, Some are on Project Gutenberg. Diedre Lefaye's book is available for half that. Nancy

Confession: I have never read a complete edition of Austen’s letters. One reason for this is that it seems difficult to obtain an affordable edition – even a quick glance online now shows a

For me this is the tradition which stems from Elizabeth Jenkins. Details of all sorts have been added in the past 80 years, but the portrait the family wanted remains fundamentally unchanged. The most

I'm going to try to watch the recordings. I would not have managed it without my daughters' help. We saw only a slice of the sessions. Until recordings, going to the JASNAs was very frustrating for me

Thank you so much, Arnie, for your "long, kind, satisfactory detail of particulars" (as Lizzy wrote to her aunt!). Most satisfying, indeed, and thank you for all the great descriptions, they told me

I think every one should read Austen's letters. I like Chapman's edition. He has several compilations after the letters that add interest. Other's like the Deidre Lefaye edition. The letters allow one

I like Holmes's book , the Age of Wonder. Will have to look into his Confessions. Nancy [email protected]> wrote:

I like the question Rory O'Farrell proposed on one of the lists I moderate. Which is the least worse of the biographies of Jane Austen? Let me look at the ones I have and choose the least worse. Yes I

What is the opposite of hagiography? That is what I think about most of the biographies of Lord Byron. While Austen's biographers seem to be making her a saint, Byron's twentieth and twenty-first

Omitted: Richard Holmes Confessions of a Romantic Biographer; Maurois Art of Biography -- on biography itself. <ellen.moody@...> wrote:

Great biographers: Claire Tomalin (recommend especially her auotobiograhy), Victoria Glendinning (on Leonard Woolf), Claire Harmon (on Charlotte Bronte, another on Fanny Burney), Hilary Spurling on

I see Arnie is repeating the same ideas. No wonder statistically Americans do so badly in the area of mortality and health vis-a-vis other so-called “developed countries.”

?For what it’s worth, Ellen, I was sincerely acknowledging that ultimately it’s your own life to live. I was glad Tamar gave you that advice, I joined in it, trying to give you the benefit of my

For what it’s worth, Ellen, I was sincerely acknowledging that ultimately it’s your own life to live. I was glad Tamar gave you that advice, I joined in it, trying to give you the benefit of my

To Arnie, I can't resist replying I should have guessed you'd end up condescending and judging. E.M. <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

It is indeed your life to live. Arnie

I do what is in my character to do -- Ellen <arnieperlstein@...> wrote:

Thank you, Tamar, for giving Ellen that good advice to be proactive (and I would add, to ask her loved ones to be proactive on Ellen's behalf) - our health care system responds to the squeaky wheel,

I am not a doctor nor anything medical. That said, my opinion is that you need a second opinion. From a different set of doctors, in a different hospital. Tell them someone else suggested it might be

Indeed. This is not the first time after a bout in an American hospital emergency room, people have offered to put me in a cab when I was clearly not up to it. I'm sure there is nothing unusual about