Jane Austen

Jane Austen

1775–1817
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Jane Austen wrote six novels in the late 18th century that offered sharp social commentary on the English landed gentry and the constraints placed on women of her time.

“Certainly not; but if you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them; and she is very stout and healthy, and hardly forty.

from Sense and Sensibility
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