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What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Imagination
Literature
Sure
Imaginations
Form
Mistaken
Self
Wild
Forms
Dear
Concerned

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