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No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
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Steventon
Hampshire
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Fifteen
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Training
Seen
Catherine
Born
Heroine
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Heroines
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Seventeen

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