jane-austen

JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817) Author 10 HENRIETTA STREET, LONDON WC2 “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort and to have done with all the rest.” (Jane Austen) Much has been written about how a Rector’s Spinster daughter from a small town in Hampshire could have the knowledge and experience to write books that nearly 200 years after her death still have two entries in the top twenty greatest love stories of all time. After extensive research, ploughing through the letters that she wrote while staying in this house with her brother Henry, reading endless missives mostly detailing the alterations she makes to her clothes, I can finally reveal the truth. She made it up. That’s what those sneaky novelists do you know.