Who Am I?

I have a fun game for you all! As I have been super busy this week (Four tests!) I decided to post a poem I wrote about a famous author for Night of the Notables in eighth grade. I love this poem and if you know me well enough you might be able to guess the author without even reading the poem! Comment your guesses and on Monday I will reveal the subject of my poem! Happy reading!

I am known as a writer

Unusual in my time

But my novels are still famous

I wrote only six before I died

I lived with my family

My sister Cassandra my best friend

My father encouraged me to read and write

Where in other houses this would offend

They say I was funny

With a humor quite subtle

I was a woman very wordy

Always prepared in arguments with rebuttal

My books are romantic

Ironic I must say

For I never married

And I was happy that way

Incorporated in my works

Because it is my style

Realism, irony, and social commentary

Make reading them worthwhile

Two of my novels

Have titles quite alike

With and’s in the middle

And identical first letters of the two words left behind

Even though I died

In Winchester at only 41

My legacy lives on in classic novels

And eager readers who are young

So one last clue

If you still are not able to guess

My last name relates to cities of Texas

Which when I lived did not exist