Emma Claire Sweeney

And oftentimes what people will assume I've drawn from my own experience might not be the case.

And the things that I really have drawn from my own family might slip under the radar.

So I think it's very dangerous to make assumptions.

I also think it's highly unlikely that

that austin wouldn't have drawn at all from the well of her own experience and mixed that with her observations and her imagination and combined those things become something new and different i do think there are a certain comparisons that are hard to overlook so as john said

It seems clear that Jane Austen had a close relationship with her father and that he was supportive of her and her work.

So the fact that for her 19th birthday, he bought her a portable writing desk.

The fact that when she was 21, he sent out a copy of her early novel, First Impressions, which later became Pride and Prejudice, we think, to a publisher.

seems to me to show an extraordinary level of support.

But I think what happened after his death does go to show that perhaps he hadn't

been as careful as he might have done about protecting the financial future of his wife and daughters.

The fact that they were to an extent dependent on the generosity or otherwise of her brothers.

What I said about sense and sensibility might come to mind here.

There do seem to be some comparisons to be made there.

And the situation of the daughters in Pride and Prejudice.

So it's not a direct comparison.

It's not saying that

she was writing autobiographically, but that perhaps fathers who haven't maybe fully provided for the future of their daughters is, you know, a subject that might have been closed home in some way.

There also seems from Austen's letters, several references that might lead us to think that her mother could have been a bit of a hypochondriac.

she talks about at one point, my mother would tell you that she was terribly sick, but in fact, she doesn't have a fever or a cough or a sore throat.