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Dear Jane, your stories still matter, and in them you will last forever! 📚📖✨💫

Jeanette

I wonder what she would think about her popularity! The world knows and loves Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett! Miss Austen
Is an inspiration, she teaches us to be ourselves- not settle for less.

TL

I can't imagine life without the existence of characters like Elizabeth Bennet, Elinor Dashwood, Ann Elliot and so many more. All of these wonderful people existed in Jane Austen's imagination, and we are all thankful for that! :)

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!

susanaafonso_13

Thank you Jane. Obrigada Jane, o teu legado é gigante, obrigada 🙏 🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️🇵🇹

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

susan.may58

 Thank you for everything, Jane!