Jane's big-mouthed niece, Fanny, asks her this question, and she doesn't answer, maybe not at all, or it's too bad to compete. And in this world, there should be far more people who marry someone who shouldn't be married than people who die alone, I think. After all, many people can't stand loneliness. What happened to Jane the night she agreed to Harris Bigg's proposal, so that she went back on it the next day?
Jane said she chose freedom. Really, who knows if the name Jane Austen would be as loud as it is today if she became Mrs Bigg?
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