little miss austin

The reaction of the sisters was exactly what Alice expected.

Cathy and Jane have the best relationship. She promises to fully support Jane's creation, and also supports Alice's proposal to get Henry to enter the publishing industry; A girl with pink bubbles all over her body.

Jane began revising "Eleanor and Mariana" in April, changing it from epistolary to third-person narrative, and is also working on a love story about two young man and woman without property.In this new work, she slashes her usual sarcasm with feminine wit and writes a love story that's sweet but tinged with melancholy.

She was a little ashamed to let Cathy and her mother know about her new work, so she had to secretly read it to Alice, but she did not expect to be highly praised by her little sister.

"Maybe it's not your Eleanor, but it's a lovely story. I wonder, did Thomas and Janet get married in the end?" See, she didn't even change the names of the hero and heroine.

"I don't know yet, I can't be sure." Jane showed a rare melancholy expression, "Perhaps you don't quite understand, our family - we don't have much money, Dad works very hard, but he just makes ends meet, Mom said , Our family doesn’t have much savings, she can only give Cathy 300 pounds, maybe 400 pounds at most, part of which is the inheritance my mother got back then, and part of it is the dowry my father saved for us.”

300 to 400 pounds, really not much.Considering that Wesley's annuity is 2000 pounds, I feel that 400 pounds is indeed very little, and it is a one-time payment.

"Why doesn't our family have any savings? Doesn't Frank have money at home?"

"That's Frank's money."

"He won't get married too early, so he can use it first if necessary."

Jane smiled, "Then what money will Dad use to fill this vacancy?"

Alice didn't think about it, "Of course it's open source. You can't save much money by saving your home."

"Then—what else can Dad do?"

"Why must Dad be able to do it?"

Jane froze for a moment, "You mean, relying on writing to make money?"

"Is there anything wrong? Isn't it good to publish your own work in exchange for the reward you deserve?" Alice's eyes widened.

"I can't say. Don't you think, that's a bit—I should write for hobbies and interests, and the works I write will be liked by me, and I think those who are willing to read my works will also like them .”

"Writing what you want to write has no conflict with being loved by many readers."

Jane looked at her with great interest, "Tell me, how did you think of it? I mean, let Henry learn to be a publisher."

"I've been to several bookstores in London. Do you know someone whose book sells thousands of copies? That means at least £300. If you can earn £200 a year, you'll be fine. "After all, Pastor George supported nine children with an annual income of 200 pounds. A young woman can live comfortably on 9 pounds a year.

Jane was really tempted.She doesn't value money very much, but she can't do it without money, and it's not like she doesn't understand anything.She had been taught that a woman should depend on her father, brother or husband, that public fame was unbecoming of a lady, but it must have been nice to have a disposable income of her own.

She naturally thought of herself and Tom.

Mrs. Lefroy made it clear to her mother that Tom’s family has no money. He has 11 siblings. Although several older sisters are married, the family’s financial burden is still heavy. The parents’ financial situation is very bad. He sent half of the pocket money back home so that the brothers and sisters could live without too much poverty.

He will not be able to graduate until next year. After graduation, he must obtain a barrister's license in England before he can work. In the first few years, he must not have much income. He has no money to marry or maintain a family.His best bet was to marry a lady with an annuity, not a clergyman's daughter with a meager dowry.

Her contradiction is that she thinks that a lady can't rely on her own labor to make money, but having a considerable disposable income can give her more choices, and this attraction really makes her tempted.

It doesn't seem like a bad thing to have a little sister who is obsessed with money. At least her whim gave herself a possible prospect.

Her interest is high, and her creative desire is also high, and she is very happy every day.

Now Alice can say that she knows all the rules of cricket, and she can tell who is playing well and who is not. Both Henry and Tom are playing well. The girl Jane is also playing well, and Francis is actually playing too. Pretty good, he said, and cricket was all the rage at the Naval Academy.

Wesley played with them 2 or 3 times. He is really not a very good athlete. The reason may be that he played too little and was not decisive enough. He was not sure about the timing of hitting the ball. Sometimes Alice was anxious for him.Tom always laughed at him, probably because Tom himself was a very smart person and didn't think much of Wesley, who looked a little clumsy.

Alice couldn't play with them, but fortunately there were many children of the same age in the neighborhood. Hastings Foyd often came with his mother, and the children played cricket together in another field.

Mom always felt that Alice shouldn't be playing cricket with boys, but she could be considered a very good mother and didn't stop her or restrict her actions.Alice was very busy with lessons with Reverend George, playing cricket, and spending time with rich older women at Gresham Manor.

Her personal property has reached more than 30 pounds, most of which are paid to her by Wesley.Mrs. Gresham is not too stingy, as long as she finds that her skirt is too short, she will have to sew a maid to make a new skirt for her, otherwise she can really only wear the skirts of her sisters when they were young, although they are at least 8% new The skirt, but the style is old, not the current popular style.

Mrs. Gresham disliked Mrs. Austen for letting Alice wear her sisters' old dresses, and said that the Austen family couldn't even make a few new dresses. Alice felt that she was really rich and knew how to be poor.

This is always the case in ordinary-income families. The children wear the older children's old clothes, and Alice doesn't mind wearing old skirts.Besides, my mother's current direction of spending money is to make as many new skirts as possible for Jane, so that she can appear glamorous and beautiful in public.She was dissatisfied that Tom didn't have a stable income, and Jane made it clear that she didn't like Wesley, so she always wanted to let Jane meet new possible husband candidates, and take her out to the prom if she had nothing to do.

Jane complains that social events take up so much of her time that she has no time to write.Alice guessed she meant to say that she couldn't see Tom much.

3 weeks of free time quickly passed, Tom Lefroy will return to London for the weekend.

Francis will also leave home and return to sea.

There was another ball at Gresham Hall, the Austins were invited, and the Lefroys were also invited.

Lucy was very excited.She was still a young girl who grew up in Ash, and had nothing wrong with her other than fantasy, and she had never had much hostility towards Jane Austen, who might steal Tom's heart. Besides, she could dance now, and the whole Let Tom dance with her at night.

This time, Jane was taken away by Francis and formed two pairs of dance partners with Cathy and Wesley.

Cathy was engaged and it was not good for her to dance with other men, but it was perfectly fine to dance with her own brother.Francis also learned social dancing in the military academy and is a master of dancing.

After Wesley strengthened social dancing, Jane didn't dislike him very much, but she was keenly aware that Francis intended her to stay with Wesley as much as possible.She wondered if Francis was instructed by her mother?

Francis also skillfully proposed that several people go outside together to "get some air".

When Jane followed her brothers and sisters to the edge of the woods outside, she suddenly realized that it was here last time that Wesley bumped into her and Tom kissing.

It's embarrassing, okay?

She didn't want to go any further.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing her stop, Wesley also stopped.

"Let's - let's move to another place. I think the pool has been taken care of. Is it replaced with clean water?" Iron lanterns were still inserted on both sides of the pool. The pool was finally cleaned, and there was no indescribable smell.

"Yes. Alice said the pool is too dirty and smelly. It's summer, and she can't bear it if it isn't cleaned up."

Jane smiled, "You like Alice very much."

"No, it's my aunt who likes her very much."

It wasn't that Mrs. Gresham didn't have money, it was just that she wasn't interested in taking care of it, but when Alice proposed it, she agreed.

Workers were hired to get the water out of the pool first, and shallow ditches were dug in the woods. The water followed the ditches to the woods and seeped into the soil; the silt was cleaned out and pulled away by trucks to fill fields or It is something else; and then the water truck is used to bring clean water to fill the pool and plant water lilies.

Now is the flowering period of water lilies, and the pond full of water lilies under candlelight is quite beautiful.

Alice likes water lilies.

Alice liked Wesley.

She couldn't help but want to re-examine this tall, thin and clumsy peer: Does being liked by Alice mean that he has some outstanding advantages that she hasn't discovered yet?My little sister is a very picky little guy, she may not like all the brothers, let alone like an outsider easily.

Then she suddenly realized that Cathy and Francis had gone somewhere, leaving only her and Wesley by the pool.

"You can come during the day, and the water lilies are beautiful during the day. Alice can spend an afternoon by the pool."

"What is she doing by the sink?"

"draw."

Jane nodded suddenly.

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*At the end of the 18th century, novels were still unpopular popular books. The emergence of printing presses was mainly used to print religious pamphlets in large quantities. It was not until the end of the 19th century that the number of printed novels in Europe exceeded that of religious books.