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I personally headcanon that Jane has no accomplishments because it took her several years to teach Lydia how to read, but I think there are a few possibilities:

Mrs. Bennet convinced a younger Jane that she could skate through on looks alone, now it's kind of too late

While masters were provided when asked, Jane was too nervous to ask so it wasn't until Elizabeth requested it that a piano teacher was brought in

Jane helped with her sisters and didn't have time to focus on her own education (okay I wrote that twice but I'm kind of convinced)

“Mary, who having, in consequence of being the only plain one in the family, worked hard for knowledge and accomplishments, was always impatient for display.”

Plus Mary, unlike Jane, would have the bonus of things already having been arranged for Elizabeth’s lessons. I think it’s likely Elizabeth just enjoys music more than Jane does, and that is why she was the one who took the initiative to learn.

To be fair, I don’t think Jane had no accomplishments though:

“To Jane herself,” she exclaimed, “there could be no possibility of objection,—all loveliness and goodness as she is! Her understanding excellent, her mind improved, and her manners captivating.”

Doyle and Wilde met at a dinner hosted by an American businessman who wanted them both to write books for his magazine. Wilde immediately won Doyle’s heart by complimenting one of his historical novels, which was especially thrilling for Doyle as Wilde was already famous and he (Doyle) hadn’t expected Wilde to have even heard of him.

They did both end up agreeing to write for the magazine. Doyle wrote The Sign of Four and Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The most interesting part of this whole thing is that Doyle would later go on to gush about Wilde in a memoir written after Wilde’s trial for gross indecency, and in this memoir describes Dorian Gray as “a book that is surely upon a high moral plane.” Which was an incredibly bold stance, given that Dorian Gray was famously cited as evidence against Wilde in his trial.

Fry speculates that some of Holmes’ eccentricities in later books, such as his “murmured elegance of phrasing, dressing gown-lounging bohemian habits, and range of intellectual and artistic reference” may have been inspired by Wilde. He also notes that Langham Hotel, which is was the venue where Wilde and Doyle first met, is name checked in The Sign of Four.

The other two entries to this series, Part 1 and an explaination of why the portrait at Pemberley is so important:

Call me naive, but I think the vast majority of Jane Austen fans who hate Persuasion 2022 just think it's a terrible adaptation; a destruction of Anne's character and therefore the entire narrative; and a bad movie. It's not that deep, it's just a horrible movie.

When I complain about this movie, it's not because of colorblind casting lol. It's because it completely butchers the characterization of Anne, doesn't understand what the novel is about and why it appeals to readers, and wants to be a period movie without wanting to actually create a period movie.