People are furious over this Jane Austen headline

Jane Austen was one of the UK's greatest ever writers. You've probably heard of her, the Bank of England put her on the tenner this year.

A testament to the author, dead for 200 years, was provided by Andrea Leadsom in the House of Commons:

A recent article in the Washington Post described her as...

...the master of the marriage plot.

The Washington Post tweeted the article, with the headline:

Jane Austen was the master of the marriage plot. But she remained single.

It went down badly, safe to say:

People also pointed out that she probably didn't need to be married:

In fact, the most apt way of retorting to the tweet was probably this:

HT Mashable

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