If you are not careful, I won't even put your name in the hat
A mixed mailbag
I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.
Charlotte Brontë
Letter to Ellen Nussey
24th March 1847 (7 months before Jane Eyre was published)
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