Jane Austen

 

Literature Fun Facts - Enjoy from Thomas a huge Austen fan.

Jealousy

July 1814, when Sir Walter Scott's first novel Waverly was published, Jane Austen was a bit jealous. She wrote the following in a letter to her niece:
"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones.—It is not fair.—He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.—I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverly if I can help it—but fear I must."
Ironically, today Jane Austen is a much more popular author than her contemporary Sir Walter Scott.