Depends on what chocolate that would go good. Fiction bookss get chocolate
Ordinary stuff like Reeses, those would be good for dime novel romances.
Dove chocolate mid range.
Godiva’s that is the upper level books.
Non-fiction a plate of nibbles like Viking sushi(Herring on Ritz), summer sausage, medium cheddar. etc… I’m there to do study.
Maybe because she wasn’t pumping them out like every two or three months. And that thanks to the era, they are refreshingly clean. As in no hopping in bed as soon as a couple caught each other’s eyes like the bodice rippers are in many ways. She took time to write.
Walter Scott noted Austen’s “resistance to the trashy sensationalism of much of modern fiction—‘the ephemeral productions which supply the regular demand of watering places and circulating libraries’”.