He enjoyed social events, and her early letters tell of dances and parties she attended in Hampshire, and as well of visits to Manchester, Bath, Southampton etc., when she attended plays and such. There is a famous statement by one Mrs. Mitford that Jane was the "the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly the girl ever remembers" (nevertheless, seems to have had a personal jealousy against Jane Austen, along with being hard to reconcile this description while using the Jane Austen who published The Three Sisters before she was eighteen). My websites: Rate Hotels: What To Know