Milliways Dossier: Jane Austen

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History

• Met her pre-writing Pride and Prejudice
  
• Working on a novel titled First Impressions - wonderful!
  
• Read Ann Radcliffe
  
• Year 1797 for her

Impressions

• Threat Level: LOW - Frau Austen has no super powers except those given to her by her pen
  
• Hard truths - "That such marriages are rare in the world and the combination of affection and money is not easy to find"
  
• Milliways has possibly influenced her writing
  
• Believes it has possibly been at least two years here and less than a year in her world
  
• On Milliways: "I enjoy learning of what is possible for women in the future and I find ideas of how to improve my own life" and "I know that while Milliways presents possible futures, the restrictions upon my life remain the same"
  
• Her intelligence is seen as a fault in her own era
  
• Spends a great deal of time in the library
  
• "Every book provides new lessons from beyond my experience. To name just one or two is difficult"
  
• Asked me where I was from, haha
  
• Once encountered a vampire in the library
  
• "I have to write when I have the time though I would prefer to write in long sessions"
  
• Advice given to a writer: "Start and don't stop. Put all the words down and then consider them"

Weaknesses

• Standard human not immune to diseases, with the standard squishiness

Scabs

• Does she write with an outline or from the seat of her... dress?

Opportunities

• Oh, so many! She could tell me more about the roles of women in her time, or other societal structures, not to mention about writing