“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” — Jane Austen | V2Melody

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

A characteristically dry observation on money and contentment · Letter to Cassandra Austen

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Jane Austen

16 December 1775–18 July 1817

Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, Hampshire, into a family whose modest circumstances, intellectual liveliness, and close emotional bonds supplied the material conditions for an extraordinary literary education. She was the seventh of eight children born to the Reverend George Austen and Cassandra…

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“Your own feelings, and none but your own, should determine such an important point.”

Urging her niece to trust her own feelings when deciding whom to marry · Letter to Fanny Knight, 30 November 1814

“I want to tell you that I have got my own darling child from London.”

Her affectionate response to receiving a newly printed copy of Pride and Prejudice · Letter to Cassandra Austen, 29 January 1813

“I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least I do not know.”

Expressing her deep affection for the character Elizabeth Bennet · Letter to Cassandra Austen, 29 January 1813