Fun Fact #2

Here is today's literature fun fact. I thought it was hilarious because 1. Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors and 2. This sounds exactly like something I would do and, of course, someone would later find out about it and put it on the internet hundreds of years later!

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..

Ahh Jane, How alike we are. Anyway, school is back in session for me tom. after being gone for four days to Chicago! Here's looking to a full day on the job.