"You will be glad to hear that every Copy of S.&S. is sold & that it has brought me £140--besides the Copyright, if that should ever be of any value.--I have now therefore written myself into £250.--which only makes me long for more."
letter to her brother Frank about the success of Sense and Sensibility
July 6, 1813 [86]
I, um, long for more! Actually, I would be thrilled just to have enough to be able to afford health insurance. Ugh.
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