Though it's a bit late in the day, I want to acknowledge the birthday of Jane Austen, one of my favorite authors. :)
Jane was born December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, England.
Love and Freindship (yes, that's her spelling of friendship) is one of the juvenilia writings authored by Jane when she was 14 years old. Below is a favorite passage of mine from Love and Freindship -- a series of letters. All misspellings are the young Miss Austen's.
"Beware of fainting-fits… Though at the time they may be refreshing and agreeable, yet beleive me they will in the end, if too often repeated and at improper seasons, prove destructive to your Constitution… My fate will teach you this… I die a Martyr to my greif for the loss of Augustus… One fatal swoon has cost me my Life… Beware of swoons, Dear Laura… A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body and if not too violent, is, I dare say, conducive to Health in its consequences — Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint –” Letter 14, Laura to Marianne
I will endeavor to do my best to "run mad" and "not faint". ;)
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