“Poor dear Mr J.P.!–Oh! dear Fanny, Your mistake has been one that thousands of women fall into. He was the first young Man who attached himself to you. That was the charm, & most powerful it is.”
letter to her niece, Fanny Knight, about Mr. John Plumptre, whom Fanny was considering marrying
November 18, 1814 [109]
Olivia Williams as letter-writing aunt Jane Austen. ©BBC 2007 for MASTERPIECE
