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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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. Go to Quote / Comment
Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection. Go to Quote / Comment
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. Go to Quote / Comment
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. Go to Quote / Comment
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any... Go to Quote / Comment