Austen Fiction Writing Quotes

“The growing social consciousness of the Industrial Revolution (1750-1850) can be found throughout the Austen Universe. While the Lady wrote about the gentry, she, none-the-less, was speaking to the human condition. Class is an imaginary distinction conferring no better manners on the “haves” and no lesser nobility on the “have-nots” and that the deepest human emotions are universal.”
― Don Jacobson

“... but pretty women in search of husbands are always more numerous than men of large fortunes looking to marry.”
― Catherine Hemingway, The Matchmaker of Pemberley: An Amorous Sequel to All Jane Austen's Novels

“Thus began the courtship of two people perfectly suited to one another in temperament, way of thinking, and resemblance of character.”
― Catherine Hemingway, The Matchmaker of Pemberley: An Amorous Sequel to All Jane Austen's Novels