Today is my birthday, and I am thirty-six, just about the age Jane was when she wrote about this compliment from Mr. Wyndham Knatchbull:
"'A pleasing looking young woman';--that must do;--one cannot pretend to anything better now--thankful to have it continued a few years longer!"
letter to Cassandra
April 30, 1811 [72]
I still think of myself as fairly young, and thirty-six is much younger now than it was then -- but I have to admit, there's a kind of freedom in aging and feeling like you really don't have to keep up anymore.
I will be thirty-six on my next birthday (January 11th). I feel the same way you do. I am much more content with myself and with life than I was ten years ago!
Posted by: Jenny Juliana | October 04, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Forgot to say...Happy Birthday!
Posted by: Jenny Juliana | October 04, 2007 at 09:54 AM
Happy, happy birthday!!!! :)
Lois
Posted by: Lois | October 04, 2007 at 02:06 PM
Happy b-day! God bless you for your work and may you be as great a woman as Austen was and continue to follow Him as she did!
Posted by: anonymous | October 04, 2007 at 04:48 PM
Happy birthday Lori! It's a little late, but I've just seeing this post, 'cause I don´t have much access to the computer now. Congratulations any way!
Posted by: Luciana | October 09, 2007 at 11:03 AM
Happy belated birthday! Love your site. Keep up the great work!
Posted by: dowbuys | October 10, 2007 at 12:34 PM