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The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Shaffi

Rare early letter from Jane Austen to her sister will go on public display

Jane Austen.
‘Very grand indeed’ … Jane Austen. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

A letter from Jane Austen to her sister, in which she shares domestic news and neighbourhood gossip, is to go on display at the author’s former home.

Dated 1798, the letter is one of around 160 by Austen that survive, and one of the earliest in existence. It came to Cheffins Auctioneers through the estate of a Cambridge resident who acquired it in 2000.

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