I know clothes historians find her letters very useful.

You can read these lettters in isolation or try to read them in yearly chuncks alone, but I do think therer is an awful lot you dont necessarily " get" without a lot of extra work: finding picutres of places, trying to assemble the Austen's group of neohgbours in ones head, working ou where things were in her neighbourhood, etc., etc.

Which I why I really ewnoy the priviedge of being able to do this, with like minded souls.

Thank you all for coming along to discuss things !