Wisdom and Worldliness: An Amusing Collection of Jane Austen's Imagined Lost Letters, Delightfully Illustrated and Curated Into a Charming Scrapbook

Two friends, artist Lizzie Nelson and writer Christine West, imagine themselves finding a secret cache of letters written by Jane Austen. Here’s how Jane might have expressed her amusing and mischievous thoughts in letters to her sister Cassandra. The collection of beautifully illustrated letters, poems and mementos have been made into a scrapbook rich with details of Regency life and society - with the added frisson of love affairs, disappointments and betrayal.

Lizzie is a British artist and author currently living in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband, daughter and dogs. After a long career working internationally as a muralist, an arthritis diagnosis led her to rethink her creative path. She has illustrated children's books and published two collections of illustrated humorous verse. Her poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies. She has a particular love for writing about dogs and the trials of midlife and menopause. Much of what she writes and draws is for the simple pleasure of making people laugh.