The Dress Form | Kathryn Hughes
Briefly

At a time when the average woman stood at a smidge over five feet, Jane Austen wasn't simply tall; she was gigantic.
I think of Austenland as a planet that travels around our own in an elliptical orbit: it comes close for a while until it continues its loop and gets farther away.
Read at The New York Review of Books
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