“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”

“Prepare yourself for something dreadful.”

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor...which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony...Quote from a Jane Austen Letter 13 March, 1817”

“What a good-for-nothing-fellow Charles is to bespeak the stockings - I hope he will be too hot all the rest of his life for it! -”

“At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the worst weather.”

“That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny.”

“Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?”