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``Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.`` --from a letter to Cassandra, October 27, 1798 ``You express so little anxiety about my being murdered under Ash Park Copse by Mrs. Hulbert's servant, that I have a great mind not to tell you whether I was or not.`` --from a letter to Cassandra, January 8, 1799 ``Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor, which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.`` --from a letter to Fanny Knight, March 13, 1817 Much loved for the romantic plot lines and wryly amusing social commentary that spring from the pages of Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Emma , and her other novels Jane Austen was also a prolific letter writer and penned missives on many subjects. To her sister Cassandra she wrote with candid humor about the effects of the Peninsular War (``How horrible it is to have so many people killedAnd what a blessing that one cares for none of them ``), about her dislike of parties and social obligations (``We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.``), and about her impressions of London (``Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my morals corrupted.``). Austen's characters likewise offer commentary on topics like moral character, gender inequality, ageing, and the disappointments of marriage. In Pride and Prejudice , for example, Charlotte Luc