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Cassandra Austen
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Jane Austen : First Impressions
'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Austen Manuscript: Book in Manuscript
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rushworth's stupidity.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Emma
'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Emma
'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to Ly Catherine & Mr Collins.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Print: Book
John Carr : Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809
'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining. I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Bucahanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city. The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' she perfectly understands the Characters herself, she cannot speak as they ought. - Upon the whole however I am quite vain enough & well satisfied enough...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Cassandra Leigh Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were tolerably strong of [italics] her [end italics], but nothing like a certainty. Her liking Darcy & Elizth is enough. She might hate all the others if she would. I have her opinion under her own hand this morning, but your Transcript of it which I read first, was not & is not the less acceptable. - To [italics] me [end italics] it is of course all praise - but the more exact truth which she sends [italics] you [end italics] is good enough.'