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Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

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
Emotion
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Outlived
Blushing
Anne
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Certainly

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