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... so do I. It was such a downer. I know, I know, she was a spinster at the mercy of her male relatives and her life was not a bed of roses. But works that are pure speculation always tend towards making her a modern woman who was glad she never married and that her writing was the equivalent of marriage and family in her mind. Sideline Rant--In our day this is done by people who pour all their…