"I have been so much delighted with this book, that I have read it through twice."

"I feel like a negligent mother for my poor Mansfield Park, so little loved by all."

"I consider a country life as a very happy one; and I think it is the most natural life for a woman."

"I have just been informed that I am to be an aunt."

"I could not sit seriously down to write a serious novel without making fun of it and of myself."