"As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents."

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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

— E. M. Delafield