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LOVE FOR JANE AUSTEN

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Joan M Doyle

Thank you Jane for all of your books, characters & your sense of humor! You have enhanced my life in so many ways! I have many Austen friends & I cherish being a part of the Jane Austen community!

Arabella Abel

I love your books. In fact, I have enjoyed them so much that I have been inspired to write 3 books of my own during the twenty-first century, in your style and times.

Claire T

Dear Miss Austen, Your writing has enriched my world and all the literary world with your wit, your charismatic characters and sublime storytelling. An inspiration to women and an icon to writers leaving a lasting legacy. Thank you.

Licia

Dear Jane it's not easy for me to write a letter to you especially because you wrote such witty and hunorous letters. so I will be short: thanks for all the joy you gave me in reading your books (which I have read many and many times). Thanks for for all the characters you brought in my world and for giving me still pleasure every time I begin your novels.

Julie Waldvogel

There is so much I could say to you Jane. It really comes down to the fact that your book Pride & Prejudice led me into the bookish world that I love so much today. If I hadn’t had to write that critique paper maybe I wouldn’t have read your book a second time that following summer to see if I really disliked it after I’d pulled it apart. That was the turning point and I’ve never looked back. Your irony is spot on and I love how you develop your characters. Can’t wait to visit your England one day!

HappyCatMom

Happy birthday to my favourite author, Jane Austen! Your legacy lives on and your books continue to inspire new generations of readers, writers, screenwriters, directors and actors. Your characters are so deep and real that we all know people just like them! External circumstances people live with today are so vastly different but people are the same. I have read all your books so many times and have watched every movie adaptation and TV series ever made that they inspired. Every time I re-read your work I remember why I love it so much and it takes me to a different time and place but oh so familiar characters and I always find myself chuckling at your humour and forgetting my own worries for a bit.

Jeanette

Dear Jane. Not only did you - and continue to bring joy to the world, you taught us to be ourselves- and never settle for less. I wonder what you would think of your popularity today! The world knows your name!!! Thank you.

Giuliana

Cara, amatissima zia Jane, il tuo talento, il tuo ingegno, il tuo coraggio sono una costante fonte d'ispirazione. Le pagine dei tuoi libri sono un mondo meraviglioso in cui rifugiarsi.

Kirsty

Dear Jane, thank you for inspiring so many other authors, you are the most amazing person. Your stories have stood the test of time, and are still relevant today.

Jannine H

I would toast her with a cheeky limerick that I think she would like but, perhaps, Cassandra would burn?! ;) Here's cheers to our beloved Jane Who's writings are humanity's gain Her wisdom and wit (whether life's shiny or sh%t) Ensures we read her again and again!!!

Caroline

Dear Miss Austen, thank you for writing such timeless, multi-layered and engaging stories. Your work transports the reader instantly to your time and there is something new to discover with every re-read. My favourite book is Emma and I especially enjoy the characters of Emma, Miss Bates, Mrs Elton and the entire Christmas Eve dining out debacle! Finding out recently that my grandmother made several exploring parties to Box Hill as a child (none resulted in a telling off thankfully) has increased my love of Emma. I think you're a genius.

Enne

Dear Jane, thank you so much for all you have written and published. Books full of wit, love and inspiration. You are a great woman and I wish I could have met you. Yours Enne

Elle

Jane you are so inspiring. Your books, be it on paper or film, in make any day better.

tall mom

My dearest Miss Austen, You have no idea how your writing works have impacted and continue to impact my life. Even though I first heard of you through film adaptations, I read most of your books in college, as part of my senior capstone project. You taught me that relationships are not easy but can be funny. Thank you for using the gifts the Lord gave you to the best of your abilities! I’m truly blessed to be a “Janeite”. With much respect and affection, Sam

Nia Bentham-Prince

Thank you for giving us the wit, Elizabeth Bennet, Mr Darcy, Colonel Brandon, Pemberley and a camp full of soldiers!!!

Christine Hastie

Thank you for exploring the relationships between women: sisters, family members, less close relatives, neighbours, friends, and non-friends—you got 'em all!

Maria Volkanova

Dear Jane, your work helps me find happiness and rejuvenate during the hardest days. You created the world that we all want to escape to. Love, friendship, honor, loyalty, hope, but also broken hearts and silly characters made your work so enjoyable. Your every work is a treasure and we will cherish it forever. I will admire and love your works forever.

Romana

Thank you for your words, Jane !

Ila25

Thanks for having changed my life taking my hand when I was only an adolescent and accompanying me until adulthood. If I am, now, a wise feminist is because of you who showed me how to look from another point of view the world

SìMonella

My beloved teacher, at the end of elementary school, gave me a book, my first "grown-up" book; it was "Pride and Prejudice", I was 10 years old, I started with yours, and I never stopped reading books ❣️

Ares

Dear Jane, if I may be permitted the familiarity of your given name, words are scarcely sufficient to convey the depth of gratitude I, along with countless others, feel for the wit, warmth, and wisdom of your stories. Even two centuries on, your characters live not merely in books, but in hearts and minds—vivid and beloved as ever. They are life’s quiet companions, offering empathy and solace when no other being can. Thank you for your ever-present presence. May your words and stories continue to live on, illuminating generations yet to come.

Everything I need to know about life I learned from Jane Austen.

I would ask her what she felt about being such a famous and revered figure 2 centuries after her life.

Jenny T

Dear Jane, I have turned to your novels during some difficult times. If we could chat, I would tell you how Pride & Prejudice and Mansfield Park supported and amused me while marooned on a sofa for weeks with post-radiation pain. Thank you for making me laugh and rediscovering Mary Crawford - a very forward thinking young woman. Thank you.

Dawn-Marie

Miss Austen, thank you for your wonderful collection of work. I have loved your books since I first started to read them when I was young. They have given me hope and comfort. My favourite is Persuasion. I love that you gave Anne a second chance at happiness. Your writing is exquisite and I’m sure it will bring joy to many generations to come. Again, thank you.

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Tributes for Jane Austen's 250th year

Aurelia

Your writing still sparkles and brings laughter, joy and happiness. Thank you.

Selisa Grimes

Ms. Austen, Happy 250th Birthday! Your novels have been life to me. I’m not being overly dramatic. I’ve found out what love is really like, what betrayal can do, manners and the love of reading beautiful words upon a page. You will be thrilled that we have movies all attempting to capture your writing via actors and movie sets. Your have left your novels in good hands especially in the new world. Every time I am in the company of an English person, I tell them “I am English too!” I then explain that I have all your novels and movies. lol!!! I hope they are very proud that I would want to be apart of a country that borne you. Thank you for what you have added to our lives through words. May we all add to planet earth the way that you have..

Mariana Werkhaizer

Dear Miss Austen, Thank you so much for your brilliant works, I hold all of them close to my heart! Your novels are so dear to me that I have gotten my master's degree with a thesis on their first translations to Brazilian Portuguese! Thank you so much for changing my life when I was 16!

Sigrid

Dear Miss Austen, it all started when I discovered "Pride and Prejudice" in my grandmothers bookshelf as a teenager - I immediately fell in love with your wit, your humour, your joy in making fun of others (and yourself) and your perfect storytelling. To this day, I LOVE your works, and they still make me giggle like the teenager I was. Reading your books is like revisiting an old friend and sharing a lot of inside jokes - thank you so much for everything you created!

Katherine Lucas

Jane, you are an inspiration and such a friend to me during my hardest times. I admire you immensely

Angela

Hello Jane, thanks for reminding us it’s alright to be human and for teaching us that humor really can see us through a lot. Your books are old friends and so treasured that they occupy a permanent spot on my very small nightstand. I’ll bet you are shocked to know how much all of this means to so many centuries later.

Britta

Her books are my refuge. Her words and sentences are my bridge to a better mood.

Pernilla

"Dearest Jane, I don’t think a day goes by without me thinking of you, your family and your life. The same goes for the characters in your beloved books. I am sorry, but simply writing you this note made me become a bit emotional. I want to tell you so much about how your books have inspired me through the years of my own life. Love and friendship, clever and funny wittiness, it is truly remarkable how all of this can touch one’s heart in such a way that it stays within forever. I have often dreamt about meeting you, if just for a minute to talk to you, ask you about the time you and your siblings were growing up. You mean so much to all of us, the Jane Austen Lovers all over the world and I can just hope that you know this and that it pleases you dearly. Please also let me say dearest Jane, that I am profoundly sorry that you got sick being so young and that you passed away too early. Thank You from the very bottom of my heart dear Jane. In all seriousness, THANK YOU."

Maria K.

Jane Austen and her writings have been a great inspiration and diversion in my life. Her stories reflect real life today even though they were written over two centuries ago. I can't even imagine a world without Jane Austen in it.

Kas

I would say thank you for such absorbing novels which has allowed us a peek into how Georgian women were expected to marry into money abs not just love. Jane you were an eye opener and a genius. Thank you

Niki

Dearest Miss Jane, we're forever grateful for your courage and tenacity in breaking through the oppressive bonds of status and culture, and in this way, instructing and guiding generations of readers and non readers in better understanding ourselves and each other. I know more about me and us, because of you. Thank you!

Tina

Dearest Jane, I often wonder if you knew – while writing by candlelight, with quiet sharpness and unwavering grace – how many hearts you would touch long after your ink had dried. Your words have walked beside me in silent strength. You taught me that wit need not wound, that honesty may be subtle, and that one can speak volumes without ever raising a voice. In your characters I’ve found comfort, challenge, and companionship. In your irony – truth wrapped in silk. Thank you for showing the world that elegance and insight are not a contradiction. With lasting admiration and heartfelt affection, Yours ever – Tina, proprietor of Miss Austen’s Booketerie and author of books inspired by your world

Pauline Macklin

Jane, your writing displays tremendous insight into the human condition. The people that you wrote about over 200 years ago and their behaviors and motivations still resonate today, it's what makes your writing universal and feels so relevant today and I feel always will. You are able to cut through the pretensions of peoples characters and show how true values and compassion are always what really matters. These qualities in your writing are what I aspire to every day. Thank you with all my heart.

Eileen

Thank you Jane for your wonderful writing, and for all the friends I have made because of our shared interest in your work.

Eryn D.

Thank you, Jane, for being the epitome of a woman who pursued God’s purpose for her life without fail and with wit to spare. Your stories and prayers have inspired generations, and they have been a space of solace for me for the majority of my life. Thank you for never failing to be you.

Diana Shand

Dear Jane. For almost 3 decades I have been loving you works. The one book you wrote, that received the least Fanfare reception, was my first and I finished it in two nights. After M.P. I couldn't rest until I knew all your works. Your books made me fall in love with reading again. I am so grateful for the legacy you left behind. I celebrate every of your (and Charles's 🤭) birthday and I remember you on every 18 July/7 Oct. Rest in eternal Peace 🕯🙏🏻🌿

Jules

Hi Jane. I was at your home in Chawton over the weekend. As a part of the event I wrote a letter to you. I am sure you would read it with your jaw on the ground. 250 years on we are Celebrating YOU and all you have given us! I felt a real tingle knowing I was writing in the same place where you had done the same!! Wow!! Thank you seems so inadequate. I hope you have a smile at our dedication to your memory. Rest easy. Jules

CE

Thank you for all the books, especially Persuasion. Still looking for my Captain Wentworth. Sleep sweetly, Jane

Polly

Thank you for creating such wonderful works. One of the thing I love most about your books is the timeless quality. Each time I re-read them, new things are brought to light. I have met many ladies through JASNA.

Elaine Kennedy

Sometimes it's the quiet people who speak for those who can't. You brought women a little closer to being heard, seen and valued. Thank you for that, Jane.

Rosane Luz

My dear Jane! You write from the soul and bring joy and inspiration to your readers. Thank you very much, from Brazil.

Noor

Dear Jane, Thank you for your wonderful works! I love to read your books and they make me laugh and smile. I wish i could talk to you today. God bless

Jodie Samuel

If I could speak to Jane I would say thank you so much for your imagination your books brought me through some of my toughest days, I can escape whatever is happening in my life and just get lost in your words and stories! I am eternally grateful for you always!

Selisa Grimes

Lainey

I would say that she should keep on writing her marvelous novels, to introduce new stories and characters about life in regency England. That she has a way of drawing you into a situation that you feel that you are there and watching Regency life.

Sonnet

Jane, you’re alive in fiction! Jane, you’re my teenage addiction! I thought you were a phase— An ephemeral, girly craze, My literary promenade (I loved Darcy in masquerade!) Jane, you are a friend, sister, and mother To daughters of the awakened age! We all had a phase with darling Jane: A phase with Elizabeth Bennet, A beef with Fanny Price, A crush on Mr. Darcy, Contempt for Mr. Collins, Adoration of Catherine Morland, Inspiration from Anne Elliot, Infatuation with the Dashwood girls, And sweet amusement from Emma Woodhouse— I love you more than I can say (Look at me using bold clichés!) My literary promenade! You’re deeper than mere romance— Woolf would call you a proto-feminist! Join me for tea! I would love your company! Tell me about finding soulmates with glances across the room— I suffer in silence and longing — Heal my dramatic doom! Speak to me from your pages, And whisper with your words. I will respond with my gazes, Falling upon the wisdom of: Pride and Prejudice

Fabiana

Jane è parte della mia vita tutti i giorni. I suoi romanzi e la sua vita mi portano nel suo mondo di cui adoro far parte. Non vedo l’ora di tornare a chawton i primi di agosto. A presto Jane. Un bacio dall’Italia.

Katie J.

Dearest Jane, I would love to meet for coffee one day and catch up with all the gossip. Your books are just the best! You have no idea but people are still crazy for them!

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