Jane Austen, Was She a Babe?

Jane Austen- "Was she attractive or not? What if, to put it bluntly, she became a writer in part because she didn’t have the looks to land a husband along the lines of a Mr. Darcy or a Mr. Knightley?" Take a gander of old Jane at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/weekinreview/01mcgrath.html?_r=1&oref=slogin