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The Characters
Jane (1813)
Everything about her is long and lean and graceful, as opposed to my short, curvy, trip-over-the-nearest-rug self. Unlike me, she can dance without maiming her partner and embroider as if possessed by actual domestic skill. I can’t even hem a pair of pants. But this is no meek little miss. She’s thirty years old and in no rush to get married, which pisses off her marriage-mad, Mrs.-Bennet-meets-Cruella-de-Vil mother (much to Jane’s delight, I like to think). She also appears to have a talent for exasperating the most prized bachelor in the neighborhood, which brings us to…