On April 1, 1816, Jane Austen responds to a letter from the Prince Regent suggesting she write a historic romance, saying, “I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.”
April 1,1816
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Of course, she didn't mean Romance like we mean Romance, did she?
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