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“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Do not make yourself uneasy, my dear cousin, about your apparel. Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us, which becomes herself and daughter. I would advise you merely to put on whatever of your clothes is superio…r to the rest, there is no occasion for any thing more. Lady Catherine will not think the worse of you for being simply dressed. She likes to have the distinction of rank preserved.” —Mr. Collins to Elizabeth Bennet, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen
“I always keep a picture of Jane Austen’s tiny writing table pinned over my desk; if six of the world’s greatest novels can be written on a tea table, anything can happen.” —LuAnn Walther, Editorial Director, Vintage Anchor Books
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Some clever artist used our PRIDE AND PREJUDICE book jacket for earrings! AND one of our all-time favorite Mr. Darcy quotes from P&P. A must have for any Jane Austen fan…
“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Jane Austen, Emma
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
Did Jane Austen Die of Arsenic Poisoning?
“Jane Austen’s untimely death in 1817 has long confounded researchers, but a contemporary crime novelist says she may have solved the mystery.
Since at least the 1960s, historians and scholars studying Jane Austen’s life and work have been perplexed: What could have prematurely killed the English novelist at age 41? The Pride and Prejudice author’s death over 200 years ago has been blamed on everything from cancer to Addison’s disease. But now, crime novelist Lindsay Ashford presents new evidence suggesting that the likely culprit was arsenic poisoning. Here, a guide to the mystery”…read more here.
“Sense and Sensibility” art by Richard Wilkinson
