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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
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Pestilence
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