If you could meet a historical figure, who would it be and why?
I want to know why her sister Cassandra destroyed all of their letters to each other, and if Jane’s novels were based on true stories. I want to know if she was proposed to, and if she denied her suitor because she was fiercely independent, or for another reason. I also want to know how she died. Was it Addison’s disease? Lymphoma? I would like to sit down and have a cup of tea, a scone, and a chat with Jane. I’d like her opinion on the casting of Mr. Darcy over the years. I kind of think that she would agree with me that Colin Firth is the only true Mr. Darcy, but I need definitive confirmation on that from Ms. Austen.
“It's Amy,” I said. 