Bearing grudges

[pegkerr]

It is quite ridiculous for me to be so resentful about something that happened almost two hundred years ago. But although I know that Jane Austen loved her sister Cassandra probably more than anyone else in her life, I still nurse a furious resentment towards Cassandra for burning many of Jane's letters after her death (by some estimates Jane wrote over 3,000 letters over the course of her life, but only 160 or so remain). And the ones she kept, she censored. Even if it was what Jane wanted her to do.

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[eal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I completely understand. I have a beef with James Boswell's family. The burned scores of things that he wrote because they were "embarrassed" by him. There are some answers that had to have been in the stuff they destroyed, but we'll never know.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

For me, it's Richard Burton's (the old one, not the actor) widow.