Happy Birthday Jane Austin

[PeteXXX]

Happy Birthday Jane Austin...

250 years old today 🎂

Well, she would have been.. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Drago]

Wasn't she married to the bionic man?

 

[PeteXXX]

Wasn't she married to the bionic man?

No, that was her sister I think? 🤔

 

[glasgowcyclist]

No, that was her sister I think? 🤔

She was married to her sister?!

 

[slow scot]

She was married to her sister?!

That is not a truth universally acknowledged.

 

[Ian H]

An acerbic writer whose novels were turned to romantic mush on TV and film.

 

[tom73]

Her sister Anne due to ill health with TB went to stay a few at Scarborough for the air and the spa waters to recover. She died on one visit and is buried just down from the castle in St Marys church yard.

 

[presta]

She doesn't look a day over 249.

 

[Drago]

An acerbic writer

Hence her popularity among the NCAP congnoscenti.

 

[Ian H]

Her sister Anne due to ill health with TB went to stay a few at Scarborough for the air and the spa waters to recover. She died on one visit and is buried just down from the castle in St Marys church yard.

As far as I can see, there was no such person.

 

[tom73]

As far as I can see, there was no such person.

Your right my chemo brain fog meant I've miss read the title and got the families mixed up.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Wasn't she married to the bionic man?

Silly, her dad used to make stagecoaches bitd, and before the horseless carriages he moved onto making. Sold one to Jane Austen, I believe.

 

[Webbo2]

Her sister Anne due to ill health with TB went to stay a few at Scarborough for the air and the spa waters to recover. She died on one visit and is buried just down from the castle in St Marys church yard.

Wasn’t that one of the Brontë sidters.

 

[Drago]

Wasn’t that one of the Brontë sidters.

Pretty sure she wasn't a brontosaurus.

Anyone seen my reading glasses?

 

[alicat]

And the least we can do is spell Jane Austen's surname correctly....