Name: Northanger Abbey
Author: Northanger Abbey

A softly glowing brass lantern draped with gauzy fabric, with a pale paper slip tucked behind it. — Original artwork

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

A blue hyacinth in a glass bulb vase beside a tiny brass watering can on a pale yellow background. — Original artwork

I am pleased that you have learned to love a hyacinth. The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.

Jane Austen

Two interlocked brass rings with frayed thread resting on red ribbon and green cloth. — Original artwork

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

Jane Austen

A red rose in a glass bottle beside a small pale bird and fallen petals. — Original artwork

No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves, it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Jane Austen