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Also found this curious tidbit in the text:
or in Bingley's Tour in Wales (1800).

Bingley?...your namesake? Or have you been around a lot longer than you've been letting on to us?


Yes, indeed. I did take a tour in Wales shortly before the events recorded by Miss Austen, and had often thought of publishing my journal of that time before I entered cryogenic suspension. I had no idea someone in my family had actually induced a publisher to bring out my scribblings.



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