by Monty Gilmer
The novels of Jane Austen
Are the ones to get lost in.
--Edmund Clerihew Bentley
I wonder if Petula Clark
Has ever read Mansfield Park.
--Monty Gilmer
(English songstress Petula Clark was born on this day in 1932.)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Portrait, ca. 1810
