Jane Austen and the Limerick lawyer

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Jane Austen and the Limerick lawyer
Thu, 18 Jul, 2013 - 01:00

THIS day in 1817 the novelist Jane Austen died. She was 41 years old.

When she was a young girl, her father, rector of Steventon in Hampshire, let her scribble in the parish register the names of imaginary husbands. But Jane never married.

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