] (It might even be a good game sometime to play the six degrees of Jane Austen.....)

Just to bring in something related to the Monthly Topic (do I get brownie points for this, Caroline?).

I posted below about JA's surprising lack of connections with anyone vaguely famous these days. So if we were trying to link up JA with other people, it'd probably be simpler to just to play Five Degrees of Warren Hastings.