Pockets, Riddles, and Ciphers: Between Books and Bodies in Jane Austen's Emma

The riddle book is a quarto size, made by folding a large "royal-sized" paper into quarters. [...]Austen tells us that the volume is "ornamented with cyphers and trophies." [...]perhaps the most frequent variety was the "commonplace" book. [...]the volume is devoid of c...

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Published in:Persuasions : the Jane Austen journal (Print version) 2024-01 (46), p.227-236
Main Author: Duke, Emma Marie
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Language:English
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