By John Hertz: So far as I know she never actually said this.
Nor did she write message fiction.
But everyone in her books who learns anything learns it.
Don’t make windows into mirrors.
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Actually, she did write message fiction: see Helena Kelly, “Jane Austen, Secret Radical”. In her day, the press wasn’t really free, writers were arrested and otherwise hassled if they spoke out. So she disguised the messages.