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Quotation from Love and Freindship and Other Early Works by Jane Austen

“My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl—I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France.”

Jane Austen (spoken by Laura)

Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Love and Freindship, Letter 3rd (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Jane Austen

Laura begins her history for Marianne with a pedigree of romantic improbability.

Citation: "My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl—I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France." — Jane Austen, Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Love and Freindship, Letter 3rd (Project Gutenberg text). (id love-and-freindship-q1)

Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.

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