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Jane Austen Love no. 1

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I made this ages ago for a request on my graphic journal, but I thought I'd share this one and it's mate. The quote is by Jane Austen, on writing.

"Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can."
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I can't help wondering whether Jane Austen wrote this quote as a direct response to Charlotte Bronte's ill opinion of Pride and Prejudice.

Here is what Bronte wrote on the subject:

"Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point... I had not seen Pride and Prejudice till I read that sentence of yours, and than I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses."

I only assume such a thing because Bronte's biggest hit was of course "Jane Eyre", which consists of many such "odious subjects".

Certainly Charlotte had no objections to her sister's novel "Wuthering Heights", which was one of the most "odious" classical romance novels I've ever read.