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Jane Austen as a child?
Strory at the New Yorker, via TeaAtTrianon

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C.S.Lewis at war

Tolkien was a young married man when he went to war in 1916, but CSLewis was still in his teens in 1918 when he went to the front, wondering if he would ever go home again...

Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry, he arrived in the front line trenches on his nineteenth birthday, 22 November 1917. He survived that terrible conflict, when so many didn’t, among them several good friends. Wounded in April 1918, Lewis convalesced for the remainder of the war, which ended just before he turned twenty. For nearly 30 years, he carried two shell fragments in his chest. They were finally removed in August 1944.[2]

another factoid: He discovered Cheseterton while suffering from trench fever.