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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?

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
Sensibility
Suffering
Anything
Heart
Life

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