she is like a jane austen heroin. as i say in the book with sense and sensibility to spare. she has such -- when they get shipwrecked on their way to europe and end up in the west indies. >> host: as a diplomat. >> guest: they are on their way to spain. they are a cast away on santa domingo and she comments on how beautiful it is and what she likes is what human activity has done to is and how up to the very mountaintops they have planted coffee and sugar cane and she writes her father, william livingston, the writer of the wonderful magazine in the 1750s. she writes her father to precise paragraphs about how a sugar mill works. she loved -- she was fantastic. when john jay was off making the john jay treaty she write a letter to him saying don't be mad at me, but we have been investing our money by lending it out. so now everybody who knows us money has paid us back and nobody wants to borrow money just now. so all this bank stocks going, it seems to me like a really good investment and she gives a little kind of investment report, an analyst report on why this stock would

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reviews all extremely positive, comparing her to other writers of the day or earlier writers such as jane austen, charles dickens, leo tolstoy, emile zola. to the point where that's a prolific she was, surprise me. the amount of surprise me. the amount of reviews of her work surprise me. the very celebratory nature of those reviews surprise me, too. and even though intellectually and theoretically i know women writers are forgotten every single day, this blew my mind. it was just, she was so big and so important and she has disappeared pretty much without a trace. i think it's important, i think it's almost more important that people outside of washington state know about ella higginson been people within washington state. in terms of the diversity of american literature, you have people like william faulkner or mark twain who put certain regions of the united states on the literary map. that's what ella higginson did for the pacific northwest you're the only way people knew about the pacific northwest at the time was through her writing. as long as the writing isn't recovered, a crucial piece o

we never lose our appetite for jane austen you name it. there's a romance to them. the working class get along so well together in this one household. it's a bit of escapism as well. we never lost the appetite for the home country, i guess. >> one thing that's interesting they made an attempt to appeal to the american market. they put shirley maclaine in there. they're targeting us. >> they're co--produced by wpgh. it's the classic. i don't think anybody saw down on the abbie being as big as it was. so adding shirley ma explain in the third and paul giamatti at the end of the fourth that it's a hit and we're tapping into the sensibility in a way we have not done in a long time for british drama. >>> on january 19th there's going be a premier of "sherlock." a lot of people are giving it a lot of praise. >> it's been a long time since we've had this. not just cumberbatch but freeman who plays dr. watson he's become a movie star. it's hard to schedule these shows. it's a brilliant reimagining of the modern time. there's something really nostalgic about him. there was a