] ] To get this back to Jane Austen, we know that even when she was young, she kept her hair long enough to wear in plaits. (braids)..

] This reminded me that I had made a note of what the young Louisa Knight,younger daughter to Janes brother Edward,and god-daughter to Jane, recalled about her: "She had large dark eyes and a brilliant complextion, and long long black hair down to her knees." And this is sometime around 1814.
] (Quoted from Park Honans biography).

] By the way,this Louisa was the one who replaced her younger sister Cassandra Jane,after she had died,as wife to Lord George Hill.
] Her sister died when 36. And Louisa married the lord five years later at the age of 43. And they had one child.

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