To think Jane Austen is a useful guide to many surprising things

[reawakeningambition]

I have for some time had a theory that running a start-up high growth potential technology business is very much like living in a Jane Austen novel.

Everything builds up to the moment when (you hope) someone will make you an offer (to buy the business). And then you have one life-defining decision to make.

I advise clients in this sector and quite often advise them with Jane in my head (she is full of sense).

Does anyone else use Jane as a life guide in surprising ways?

Dd used Jane Austen as a guide to making a good marriage. Seems to have worked very well.

Yes, my sister is very wise

Ooh Cassandra!

Have you told anyone where your lost letters are?

I use her work as an excellent guide to the skilled pastime of bonnet-wearing and being utterly dependent on men to form one's self-worth.

Anybody who displays the slightest mental fragility in our house gets locked in the attic until they regain their composure. It doesn't take long, especially during the winter

:)

Yes Jane Austen for all things except parenting, for which I always look to that strange little creature that looks after Bing.