One of the most humbling things I saw in the British Library...

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...was one of Jane Austen's notebooks. As a teenager she could put words together better than I ever will.

Damn.

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[chrisber.livejournal.com]

Carriage driving was a big sport at that time (since functional roads were still an exciting novelty), done by both men and women for fun, though mostly by the former, of course.