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Jane Austen used her letters as selfies!

To Gary Lee and James Adam, at Thirty-Three Percent, for their invaluable help. In times when a portrait was a luxury, how do we show ourselves across time and distance? As any Jane Austen’s letter proves, it was in fact, really easy. In Regency times, your handwriting was part of what you were, and Jane […]

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