Austen was the youngest to die of her family, and several of her siblings lived on into their eighties (one of the two admirals managed to die of dysentery during the storming of Rangoon, suggesting that he might have gone on practically forever if he'd had a less exciting life). So you don't have the universal misery of the Brontes.
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Date: 2014-11-29 03:00 pm (UTC)