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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

Dodie Smith

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Austen
Jane
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
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It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
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