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 On her deathbed she gave the collection of letters she had from her husband telling her daughter

“Give these to the British Museum, that the world may know that he loved me once”

-Catherine Dickens

Depicts her perpetual love and regret

-Becoming Jane

In later years of Tom Lefroy’s life he was questioned about his relationship with Jane Austen and admitted having loved Jane, but stated it was a “boyish love”