Collecting Moments

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Happy Birthday, Jane Austen.

(December 16, 1775 - July 18, 1817)

“You are very kind in your hints as to the sort of composition which might recommend me at present, and I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the House of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of profit or popularity than such pictures of domestic life in country villages as I deal in. But I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.”

Jane Austen, from a letter to J. S. Clarke dated April 1, 1806
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  This woman is sharp as a tack. People who aren’t familiar with her writing may thing it’s just cheesy romance. However,...
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  Happy late birthday to one of my favorite authors :]
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