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The Life of Elizabeth Darcy and Edward Knightley
Jane Austen had hardly any formal schooling. She went to school for a year and a half, didn't learn much there. But she learned it all from her brothers, and especially from her father,. He was a university educated man, he had a good book collection. The family did sort of realize that they got somebody quite talented on their hands or in their house. And the deal was that Jane Austen had to do breakfast, okay, so she had to get the breakfast ready and clear it, and make the coffee, make the tea, and after that she was done for the day.