Thursday Thirteen ~ All About Jane

Since Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors, she is the subject of this Thursday Thirteen. The first four are quotes from JA books or movie adaptations. The rest is biographical information.

1. “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
2. “Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.”
3. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
4. "I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
5. Jane's father was a clergyman.
6. Jane was the seventh of eight children.
7. The original title of Pride & Prejudice was First Impressions.
8. Jane's father sent P&P to a publisher who refused to look at the manuscript.
9. Sense & Sensibility was published first.
10. Jane was never married.
11. Jane's closest friend was her only sister, Cassandra.
12. Jane only became a popular writer after her death in 1817.
13. She died at age 41 possibly from Addison's disease.

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