Jane Austen's letters are now available on www.audible.com, for downloading to your itunes or ipod, should you be inclined.  Unfortunately, the letters are abridged, but hopefully an unabridged version will be available soon.

I fell asleep listening to Jane's letters and woke up to The Life of Charles Dickens; the books are arranged alphabetically on my ipod so that when is one finished, the ipod jumps to the next book on the list. This can be fixed by making a playlist out of the Letters (or whatever you want to listen to) so they will loop continuously.  I would much rather wake up to the minutiae of Jane Austen's domestic life than my own interminable inner loop!

(time for Mr. Collins to confess violent passion to Elizabeth!)

photo by Deborah Guyol