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Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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
Feels
Lady
Every
Critical
Time
Known
Moment
Moments
Young
Heroine
May
Heroines
Feel
Agitation

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