Miss Bates… 📚 “Miss Bates had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Her youth had passed without distinction, and her middle of life was devoted to the care of a failing mother, and the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible. And yet she was a happy woman, and a woman whom no one named without good will.”- The Narrator… 🕯️ Miss Bates, often thought of as a nattering, ridiculous, over the top spinster… Nevertheless, “a woman whom no one named without good will.” 🪦 What an epitaph to have… #janeausten #missbates #janeaustenemma #emmajaneausten #emma #books #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #read #reading #reader #writer #writing #poetry #poet #poetrylovers #poetryisnotdead #literature #loveislove #loveislove🌈 #bre_stjames (at Concord, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoyeYotOdGP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=