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The Lover’s Christmas Gift of 1795-1796: The Shaping of Jane Austen’s Darcy is for the appreciative romantic reader aware of the deep cultural influences of Cupid and Psyche but also Echo and Narcissus.The Lover’s Christmas Giftis also forthe wordsmith who appreciates classical writings: the Austenians, Aristotelians, Homeriens, Montaigeans, Molièreans, Gothicists, and those who enjoy the rhetoric of the Carolingian or Ottonian Renaissances. The Lover’s Christmas Giftis for the litterateur, dramatist, stylist, playwright, lexicographer, satirist, belletrist, belle-lettrist, or librettist; the prosateur, memoirist, lyricist, auteur, journalist, hagiograpger, romancer, or scribe. The Lover’s Christmas Gift of 1795-1796: The Shaping of Jane Austen’s Darcy and other examinations of romantic literature are writtenfor the true lover of the Great Books classics and this analyzation contains the passionate embers that remain burning, the lovers that pine for a coupledom of romantic characters, and the readers' appetite for true love. I attempt to satisfy a reader’s craving by offering my interpretation of what likely occurred between Ms. Jane Austen and Mr. Tom Lefroy. After the finalization of a thorough research of Jane Austen’s love life, and after researching Pride and Prejudice, I surmised that Jane Austen wrote in the matter that she did concerning the characters because she is telling us, through the formation and likeness of her characters, that there was an inexplicable misunderstanding between her and Lefroy, and the misunderstanding likely was on the part of Lefroy rather than Austen, as men of her time period were incapable of portraying themselves as the evolved men of today. This inability of Mr. Thomas Lefroy to communicate himself effectively concerning his love for Austen truly damaged their initial hope of coming together in holy love and matrimony. The lesson here is that every couple is at risk of losing in love based upon the circumstances of l