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OFF THE BOOK: UNRAVELLING LITERATURE FROM A BRAND-NEW POINT OF VIEW

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The start of something new Professional people do not usually do so, but as this is an informal project I feel free to reveal (some of) the project’s background details – more because chronology gives me a favourable structure than because I feel like it. Like many other projects, this one was born out of the blue – DeeDee came up with meeting and discussing Jane Austen mainly due to three reasons. First, we met the Sunday before Jane’s 236 th anniversary and such occasions can’t be skipped when you love someone as much as we love Jane. Second, because both of us LOVE Jane Austen literally – maybe Dee does so more than me, but anyway... Third, because it’s a way for us to meet once more. In the meeting, which was of course to relax and chat a little about... life, she suggested doing something about Jane’s anniversary the following Friday – a similar meeting, some reading, some discussion and good bye see you later alligator. But five days mean a lot, and a bigger scheme was...