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Merry Christmas

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So whatever you want to read in the archive, you can.

Want a primer about sympathy in Middlemarch?

Or a summary of an exciting new theory about Jane Austen’s narrative methods?

Or maybe you want to know why Romeo doesn’t really love Juliet?

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Happy reading!

And Merry Christmas! As Jane Austen wrote in a letter, “I wish you a merry Christmas—but no compliments of the season.”

Her letters make excellent Christmas reading, by the way…