This short biography made people think of Austen as a quiet aunt who wrote in her free time . `` Neither the hope of fame nor profit mixed with her early motives ( purposes ) ... ( S ) o much did she shrink from notoriety , that no accumulation of fame would have induced ( made ) her , had she lived , to affix ( put ) her name to any productions of her public she turned away from any allusion to the character of an authoress . '' This short biography sowed the seeds for the myth of Austen as a quiet , retiring aunt who wrote during her spare time : `` Neither the hope of fame nor profit mixed with her early motives ... ( S ) o much did she shrink from notoriety , that no accumulation of fame would have induced her , had she lived , to affix her name to any productions of her public she turned away from any allusion to the character of an authoress . ''