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New Edition Of ‘Pride And Prejudice’ Prints Characters’ Letters In Period Handwriting

WORDS Posted: September 16, 2020 9:02 am

Naturally, each character’s script is different, modeled by a calligrapher on surviving correspondence from England ca. 1800 and matched to each individual letter-writer in the novel by project curator Barbara Heller. (Elizabeth Bennet’s handwriting is copied from that of Austen herself.)
Here’s how Heller went about it. – Smithsonian Magazine

WORDS Published: 09.15.20

Read the story in Smithsonian Magazine Published: 09.15.20

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