One of the most humbling things I saw in the British Library...

[randomness]

...was one of Jane Austen's notebooks. As a teenager she could put words together better than I ever will.

Damn.

Comments

[dpolicar]

Yeah, but she couldn't drive. :-)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Are you sure? I'm sure they had plenty of horse-drawn vehicles to drive...or were women not allowed to drive them in her time?

I really have no clue, actually.

[eac.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure whether she would have been allowed to drive. She would have been allowed to ride horses, though.

[irielle.livejournal.com]

She did have a donkey cart or some such when she lived at Chawton Cottage -- they have it as part of the museum displays there. From her letters though it sounds as if she preferred walking. Loved your post! *hug*

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

*hug* Thanks!

(Great to hear from you!)

[chrisber.livejournal.com]

Carriage driving was a big sport at that time (since functional roads were still an exciting novelty), done by both men and women for fun, though mostly by the former, of course.