Having discovered, to my great surprise, this book and author upon my first visit to the California Book Society on Sutter Street, a year ago, and having met the editor of the edition, Zoe Klippert, I subsequently purchased the Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 which were housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford University, where Zoe was taking a summer course. The lecturer, a librarian brought to her attention that there was a portfolio of letters by a descendant of Jane Austen's family who had gone to America that was unpublished.. She subsequently transcribed the script and the Bodlein library published the letters in 2010 . With the arrival of my co editor of the RAS (Royal Asiatic Society) Journal in Shanghai, in 2010, Fiona Lindsay Shen, who is a "Scotswoman", to the LA area in August, I picked up the book again, and this time, read it with more relish. Thinking of her and her sons, in California, after their years in Shanghai, I enjoyed ...
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