[Eloise has a stack of books bound in a green and red ribbon. The set of books are To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe. With the present is a note that reads:]
To Blair, I hope you enjoy these as much as I have. I would love your opinions on them. Yours truly, E.B.
Clearly we both have impeccable taste since we thought of the same book. I've just started 'A Sicilian Romance' and I can see the influence she had on Austen.
I was quite pleased to find that we have similar tastes. I thought you might like the gothic romance of Ann Radcliffe. If I ever get a chance to go back home, I should like to meet her. Both her and Jane really. It is sad to think that I am so close to the end of Janeโs life though. Knowing what I have learned here.
I think she, too, would like to know the impact she had.
I'd kill to meet some of these writers. I wonder though if I'd like Jane as a person. From how often she writes about country girls without a dowry, I have to wonder if it was the same for her.
She was, from what I've learned about her here-- mostly.
Back home? Well when they first printed her, they did not print her name. It was not entirely well known. I think she made her name, but-- well, my family and hers did not run in the same circle if you understand. I would have loved to meet her though. I would not have cared who she was other than a brilliant female writer.
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To Blair,
I hope you enjoy these as much as I have. I would love your opinions on them.
Yours truly,
E.B.
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I think she, too, would like to know the impact she had.
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Do people talk about her a lot during your time?
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Back home? Well when they first printed her, they did not print her name. It was not entirely well known. I think she made her name, but-- well, my family and hers did not run in the same circle if you understand. I would have loved to meet her though. I would not have cared who she was other than a brilliant female writer.
That was a rare and marvelous thing for our time.