Jane Austen, a gifted English novelist, daughter of a clergyman in N. Hampshire; member of a quiet family circle, occupied herself in writing without eye to publication, and only in mature womanhood thought of writing for the press. Her first novel, "Sense and Sensibility," was published in 1811, and was followed by "Pride and Prejudice," her masterpiece, "Persuasion," and others, her interest being throughout in ordinary quiet cultured life, and the delineation of it, which she achieved in an inimitably charming manner. She is the mother of the English 19th-century novel, as Scott is the father of it" (1775-1816).
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable. Go to Quote / Comment
There are such beings in the World perhaps, one in a Thousand, as the Creature You and I should think perfection, Where Grace &... Go to Quote / Comment
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. Go to Quote / Comment
Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is eq... Go to Quote / Comment
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Go to Quote / Comment