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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

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
Coming
Seeing
Grounds
Beautiful
Gradually
Firsts
Date
First
Hardly
Must
Prejudice
Believe
Began
Pride

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