User talk:Sara Silverstein

I think you should say something about the spelling of the word "Beautifull" in the article. At the very least you should put in something to indicate that it's the way Jane Austen spelled it.

Do you know whether

a) it was her youthful misspelling, or whether

b) it was actually an acceptable spelling at the time, or

c) she was being deliberately archaic?

I just tried a Google search on "site:www.gutenberg.net beautifull" which searches all the Project Gutenberg etexts, and everything it turned up was Elizabethan (Spenser, Pepys, Hobbes, Shakespeare) so I'm thinking it could not have been "b." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]]