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Jane Austen: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen: I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
Jane Austen: A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen: I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.... (more Jane Austen quotes)
Jane's first version of Pride and Prejudice was called First Impressions, and when her father offered it to a publisher in 1797 he refused to look at it. Fifteen years later, another publisher, Thomas Egerton, accepted the book, by then greatly changed. The final title is from a book by Frances Burney called Cecilia.
At her death, Jane left two finished novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both of which were published posthumously, and also two unfinished works, one called The Watsons and t... (more Jane Austen trivia)
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