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Monica Descalzi
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Jane Austen fan, Shakespeare lover. Literature, history, art, and nature.
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Pinned
If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
Or cool one Pain,

Or help one fainting Robin
Unto his Nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

#EmilyDickinson
And the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration that, though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation of thinking that Mr Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn.
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Jane Austen
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
But even this partial communication gave her a great deal of concern, and she bewailed it as exceedingly unlucky that the ladies should happen to go away just as they were all getting so intimate together.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I have been listening to dreadful Insanity. - It is Mr Haden's firm beleif that a person not musical is fit for every sort of Wickedness. - I ventured to assert a little on the other side, but wished the cause in abler hands.
#JaneAusten #Letters 24 Nov 1815
Jane Austen
#Shakespeare
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
MV 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,
The seasons' difference, as the icy fang
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,
Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,
Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
AYLI 2.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain.
KL 3.2
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
'Tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
H 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
A piece of ice.
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for, considering the weather, a taller man than I will take cold.
TOTS 4.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal.
R2 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.
RJ 4.3
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
RJ 3.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Are you so hot?
RJ 2.5
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.
RJ 1.5
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Cold fire.
RJ 1.1
#ShakespeareSunday
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life.
Happy Birthday, #GeorgeEliot! #Middlemarch
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Staying at the #Brontë Birthplace. Lovely video
youtu.be/1TPeLDKoQxU?...
Is the Brontë Birthplace Haunted? My Overnight Stay and What Happened Next
YouTube video by The Brontë Sisters
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November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
They agreed that Mrs Bennet should only hear of the departure of the family, without being alarmed on the score of the gentleman's conduct.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The idea of his returning no more Elizabeth treated with the utmost contempt. It appeared to her merely the suggestion of Caroline's interested wishes.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
There are six Bedchambers at Chawton; Henry wrote to my Mother the other day, & luckily mentioned the number - which is just what we wanted to be assured of.
#JaneAusten #Letters 20 Nov 1808
#OTD
Jane Austen
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
How many marriage proposals did Jane Austen turn down?

As is so often the case in the Austen biography game, the clues are so fragmentary that reaching a conclusion inevitably requires speculative leaps.

#JaneAusten #OTD

By @deborahyaffe.bsky.social
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On this day in 1808. . .
One hundred and fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How many marriage proposals did Jane Austen turn down? The story of poor Harris Bigg-Wither, whose December 1802 p...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
But if he returns no more this winter, my choice will never be required. A thousand things may arise in six months!
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
'You must decide for yourself,' said Elizabeth; 'and if, upon mature deliberation, you find that the misery of disobliging his two sisters is more than equivalent to the happiness of being his wife, I advise you by all means to refuse him.'
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Jane Austen
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM