![]() ![]() ![]() The opening lines of Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice, Vol I, Chapter 1. It may seem like a dramatic line, particularly compared to some of the other lighter declarations of love in Austen’s novel, but it perfectly encapsulates the sense of longing that permeates the whole novel. “You pierce my soul” just makes me buzz with happiness every time, as if whenever I watch or read the novel they might not quite make it back to each other. The letter Captain Wentworth sends to Anne Elliot to confess his love for her, after the seven years they spent apart, the whole time of which Anne has spent regretting not being strong enough to ignore her family’s prejudices against Captain Wentworth when they first fell in love, just feels like the crescendo of the whole novel. ![]() The sense of longing after seven years apart Persuasion, Vol II, Chapter 11. In homage to her, today I’m sharing my ten favourite quotations and why I love them (and Austen!) so much. Born in Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16 th 1775, the seventh child (and second daughter) of George and Cassandra Austen, she went on to write six full novels, two incomplete novels, a short epistolary novel and several notebooks full of juvenilia, not to mention plenty of entertaining letters. Happy 245 th birthday to my favourite author of all time, Jane Austen. ![]()
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