Pride+and+Prejudice

=Jane Austen=





//** It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ( **//** Jane Austen **//**, Pride and Prejudice, **// ** first line **//** ) **//

**// It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. //**

**// Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. //**





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 * INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT JANE AUSTEN**
 * She completed six novels, including //Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,// and //Persuasion//. Four of them were published before her death.
 * Her father George Austen, a clergyman, also ran a school for boys in the family home and parsonage to supplement the family's income.
 * In 1783, Jane Austen and her older sister Cassandra went to be educated by their aunt Ann Cooper Cawley, the widow of the head of an Oxford college. From there, they went on to Abbey School, a boarding school for girls. Apart from these years, Austen was educated by her father.
 * An extremely shy girl, Jane Austen's family was the center of her world. Even at boarding school she made few friends.
 * She dedicated a book Prince Regent.
 * She is thought to have suffered from the Addison's disease.
 * In 1795, she fell in love with Tom Lefroy. However, his family found Jane unsuitable, believing that Tom should marry a richer woman.
 * Following the sending away of Tom Lefroy, Austen came close to marriage only once and very briefly. She received a proposal from an old friend, Harris Bigg-Wither. She accepted but after thinking the matter over in the night, she retracted her acceptance the next morning.
 * In Austen's title of //The History of England//, she calls herself a "partial, prejudiced, and ignorant historian". This book with very few dates was published when Jane was just 16.