Just musing about gift giving in Jane Austen's novels, and it made me wonder how common or uncommon gift giving was, relative to modern day habits, given how much more expensive manufactured goods were back then. Obviously gift giving did happen: e.g. Fanny Price gets given a cross pendant by her brother and then two people separately each give her a chain to wear it with, and there's a very mysterious gift of a piano in Emma, but would the Bennett sisters have given each other gifts on their birthdays as a matter of course, unlike Fanny's brother's gift which appears to be a very special one? Or, to step a bit further down on the income level, would Jane and Cassandra Austen done so with each other? And if so, what would be the likely gift?