Jane

I just realized something. Jane Bennet and Jane Austen share the first same name. Woah!

Did Jane Austen do this because she really like her name? Does she think that she is most like Jane Bennet? And therefore decided to christen her with her own very amazing name?

Personally, I thought that Jane Austen would be alot like Elizabeth Bennet.

Who knows...

But then that led me to google Jane Austen - again - just to see what I could find.

According to wikipedia, she was educated by her father and brothers, and never married. She was part of a very closely knit family, her sister Cassandra was her best friend.

Maybe she based Elizabeth's and Jane's relationship on her relationship with her sister.

Although Jane Austen never married (which is very interesting, seeing as Pride and Prejudice is quite focused on the whole marriage thing) she did have a certain somebody, who was later sent away by her family.

Her other book, Persuasion has a part where the main character loves someone who is not approved of.

This then got me to wonder, does Jane Austen hide bits and pieces of her life in each book she writes?

I am going to try to read every single book that she ever wrote (or at least the ones that she published) and compare them to what biographies say about her.

Then, maybe, when I am old, I can write a book about it all, and title it Decoding Jane Austen, or something awesome like that.