Virginia Woolf, in "The Common Reader", does mention

Miss Mitford’s anonymous friend “who visits her now [and] says that she has stiffened into the most perpendicular, precise, taciturn piece of ‘single blessedness’ that ever existed, and that, until Pride and Prejudice showed what a precious gem was hidden in that unbending case, she was no more regarded in society than a poker or firescreen. . . . The case is very different now”, the good lady goes on; “she is still a poker—but a poker of whom everybody is afraid. . . . A wit, a delineator of character, who does not talk is terrific indeed!”

The Miss Mitford here, is the novelist Mary Russel Mitford, whose mother remembers Jane Austen at sixteen as "the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever."
Mrs Mitford was the daughter of the rector of Ashe, the parish adjoining Steventon. Although she left the parish on the death of her father, before Jane was sixteen, she did not move far - Alresford - and could certainly have gossiped about the Austen girls at the assemblies when she visited her friends.

Mrs Mitford's daughter, and Miss Austen's nephews both agree that this rather nasty report of Jane is contrary to all others of the time. Mrs Mitford married a gambling man, which lead to money troubles for her and her daughter, and while I can't say for sure, I doubt Jane Austen would envy the kind of married life she enjoyed.