Happy birthday to Jane Austen (1775-1817), English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She published four novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815). 
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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Painting: Sir William Beechey
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