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Byline: Florence Kane
Jane Austen was just sixteen years old when she wrote Lesley Castle (Hesperus), a satirical novella of letters exchanged by two young Regency women. Charlotte Lutterell's ludicrous passion for food causes her, when she hears that her sister's fiance has been gravely injured just before their marriage celebration, to exclaim, "Good God!
You don't say so? Why what in the name of heaven will become of all the victuals?" Her faithful correspondent, Margaret Lesley, laments to Charlotte, "How often have I wished that I possessed as little personal beauty as you do." (If she were less admired in society, she ...