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 so much that I wanted to know, and was a wonderful addition to the livestream. Now that more of the talks are available, I'm slowly working my way through them. I liked Peter Sabor's talk greatly, he is so good on Fanny Burney and can connect the dots with Austen with masterful ease. Paul Savidge's was my other favorite, as I wrote in the comments Peter bought a copy of Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature about thirty years ago in England and paid 75p for it!? We've enjoyed (bits of) it ever since, and I was delighted Savidge was the first to take it up in a talk in connection with JA, as he most capably and entertainingly did. I was also interested in Christine Kenyon Jones's Austen/Byron talk, as that's an area of interest of mine, but it didn't actually tell me anything I didn't already know (I've put a lot about Byron in my novel The Darcys in Venice which I'm just finishing).? Collins Hemingway is great, I have written a review of his excellent JA and the Creation of Modern fiction for JASNA News.?
?So thanks again, Arnie. I'm certainly hoping to be in Baltimore for the next JASNA, and I'm trying? to figure out which events in England to try for this year. There are quite a few choices and I can't really be there the whole time!? Southampton maybe - or the JAS AGM - or the birthday itself: terrible temptations!?I'm so glad you and Diane Reynolds got to meet in person at last!? It's nice to know that.?Diana
