Jane Bites Back_ A Novel - Michael Thomas Ford
For Liz Waters,
who gives very good advice
Chapter 1
My dear Cassandra, I do wish you could have been at the party last night. I was compelled to converse with the most disagreeable woman. But then, as I have said to you before, I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
—JANE AUSTEN, in a letter to her sister, Cassandra, 24 December 1798
IT WAS NOT, OF COURSE, EXACTLY WHAT JANE HAD WRITTEN TO her sister that long-ago Chris ...