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All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

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
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Existence
Gone
Hope
Longest
Women
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Loving

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