Saturday, January 1, 2011

Jane Austen's Advice

Dear Readers, Happy New Year, everyone! 2011 promises to be a good on in Jane Austen Land.Thank you for visiting this blog and inspiring us to provide daily information about Jane.

A good friend, Lady Anne, sent me words of advice from Jane Austen's Little Advice Book. Our dear Jane is always good for a chuckle!

On Taking Autobiographies with a Grain of Salt:
"Those who tell their own story...must be listened to with caution." - Sanditon
On prediction the popularity of plastic surgery:
"But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to observed in them forever" - (P&P)

Jane Austen's Little Advice Book by Cathryn Michon and Pamela Norris  MJF Books, New York, 1996

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