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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Steventon
Hampshire
Keeps
Summer
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Continual
Dreadful
August
Hot
Weather

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