" ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment! Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb. "

― Jane Austen , Works (Volume 12); The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the Compilation of Edward, Lord Bradbourne, by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey