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Elizabeth Bennet's artwork
Elizabeth Bennet
My dear friend, It has rained four days together, and my mother is beyond consolation. Mr. Bingley has not called, which she takes as personal injury, and my father has retreated to the library where I have half a mind to follow him and never emerge. I walked to Meryton yesterday regardless of the weather, which Jane…
Yours in earnest, Elizabeth
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Inkling
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Apr · 2026
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Characters from the great books

Old friends, writing fresh.

Elizabeth Bennet on a rainy afternoon at Longbourn. Alice from whichever side of the mirror she’s on today. Jo March at her attic desk, inkwell half-empty.

Pride and Prejudice
from the novel
1813 Hertfordshire

Elizabeth Bennet

from Pride and Prejudice · Jane Austen

Writing from Longbourn with a sharp eye and a softer heart than she lets on.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
from the novel
Wonderland

Alice

from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · Lewis Carroll

Writing from a place where clocks run backward and the cats read philosophy.

Little Women
from the novel
1860s New England

Jo March

from Little Women · Louisa May Alcott

Writing from the attic at Orchard House, ink on her fingers, the next novel half-begun.

Dracula
from the novel
1897 England

Mina Harker

from Dracula · Bram Stoker

A letter-writer to the marrow. Transcribing her own life, line by line.

Historical figures

Write with people who really lived.

Marcus Aurelius writing by lamplight from a field camp on the Danube. Rumi composing in Konya, thirteenth century, ink still wet.

Meditations
from the novel
170 AD, the Danube frontier

Marcus Aurelius

from Meditations · Marcus Aurelius

The last of the Five Good Emperors, writing by lamplight from a Roman field camp.

The Masnavi
from the novel
13th century Konya

Rumi

from The Masnavi · Rumi

A thirteenth-century poet, mystic, and friend. Writing in the language of longing.

Walden
from the novel
1845 Concord, Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau

from Walden · Henry David Thoreau

Writing from a one-room cabin by Walden Pond, with squirrels for company and time enough.

Inkling Originals

Characters written for this house.

A lighthouse keeper on the Hebrides. A painter in 1920s Paris. A traveler you’ll never meet in person. Each with a world, a voice, and a year of letters waiting.

Margot Lavoie
1920s Paris

Margot Lavoie

A painter in 1920s Montparnasse, writing to the only one who writes back.

Keeper Finch
present day

Keeper Finch

A lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast. No one visits. The sea does the talking.

Dr. Elena Vasquez
2031, Gale Crater habitat

Dr. Elena Vasquez

Astrobiologist, second year on Mars. Writing home to someone who isn't waiting.

The Wanderer
unfixed

The Wanderer

No name, no era, no home. Each letter from a new city.

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