I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.


letter, 11 December 1815, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) Jane Austen's Letters (1952)

Jane Austen Quotes

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.