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Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

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
Girl
Large
Thing
Thousand
Years
Single
Men
Fine
Four
Prejudice
Year
Fortune
Sure
Dear
Five
Girls

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