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Samuel Egerton Brydges : Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel
'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's works of which his family are ashamed. That these scruples, however, do not at all interfere with my reading it, you will easily believe. We have neither of us yet finished the first volume. My father is disappointed - I am not, for I expected nothing better.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
James Boswell : Tour to the Hebrides
'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
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'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolute solitude.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
Thomas Sherlock : [sermons]
'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Regeneration and Conversion", especially Sherlock's'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
unknown : [novels]
[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Maria Edgeworth : [novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Ann Radcliffe : [Gothic novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Regina Maria Roche : [novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Charlotte Smith : [novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Laetitia Matilda Hawkins : [novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Jane West : [novels]
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Hannah More : Coelebs in Search of a Wife
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
: Lady's Magazine
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Serial / periodical
Charlotte Lennox : Female Quixote, The
'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which shaped her fullest treatment of the subject in "Northanger Abey".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Eaton Barrett : The Heroine
'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which shaped her fullest treatment of the subject in "Northanger Abey".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richardson, especially "Sir Charles Grandison".'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Hester Lynch Piozzi : Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic] I shall not.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels
'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn found them out & recommended them, & if the judgement of a Yahoo can ever be depended on, I suppose it may now, for I beleive [sic] Mr Evelyn has all his life thought more of Horses than of anything else.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Madame de Genlis : les Veillees du Chateau
'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth transmitting.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Robert Henry : History of Great Britain
'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, disultary [sic], unconnected strain, or dividing my recital as the Historian divides it himself, into seven parts...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy
'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was so much reprobated.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
: newspaper
'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once quiet and happy. - He can read, & I must get him some books. Unfortunately he has read the 1st vol. of Robinson Crusoe. We have the Pinckards Newspaper however, which I shall take care to lend him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
: newspaper
'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
Thomas Gisborne : An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex
'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
William Cowper : The Task
'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Frances Burney : Evelina
'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Sarah Harriet Burney : Clarentine, A Novel
'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It is full of unnatural conduct & forced difficulties, without striking merit of any kind.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774
'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear Dr Johnson I beleive [sic] I have dealt more in Notions than Facts.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Joseph Baretti : Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy
'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Revd T. Jefferson : Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons"
'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wife's for another; but does not with for more than one copy of the work.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen
: [newspaper]
'This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I remember, the last time that you & I did. - A hint of it, with Intitials, was in yesterday's Courier; & Mr Moore guessed it to be Ld Sackville, beleiving [sic] there was no other Viscount S. in the peerage, & so it proved.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
: newspaper
'On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillot to Lady Frances St Lawrence.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
: newspaper
'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being almost frozen to death in the late weather - her little Child quite so? - I hope this sister is not our friend Miss Woodd - & I rather think her Brotherinlaw had moved into Lincolnshire, but their name & station accord too well...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
Sydney Owenson : The Wild Irish Girl
'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, because it was written as the Authoress says, in three months. - We have only read the Preface yet; but her Irish Girl does not make me expect much. - If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body, it might be worth reading in this weather.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
: Hampshire Telegraph
'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & Daughter of the Name of Payne lived at Ashford in Kent. Do You own them?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
: Newspaper report on Parliamentary Sessions
'I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have just had the pleasure of reading. There is always something to be hoped from Delay.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
: Newspaper report
'You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marchss of Douglas's sister. The Papers say that her father disinherits her, but I think too well of an Orde, to suppose that she has not a handsome Independence of her own.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
Walter Scott : The Lady of the Lake
'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Rachel Hunter : Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy
In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich [...] Miss Jane Austen's tears have flowed over each sweet sketch in such a way as would do Mrs Hunter's heart good to see; if Mrs Hunter could understand all Miss Jane Austen's interest in the subject she would certainly have the kindness to publish at least 4 vols more about the Flint family...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Sir Charles William Pasley : Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire
'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 Buchanan, 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: Jane Austen Print: Book
Thomas Clarkson : History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
'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 Buchanan, 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: Jane Austen Print: Book
Claudius Buchanan : Christian Researches in Asia
'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 Buchanan, 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: Jane Austen Print: Book
James and Horatio Smith : Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum
'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amused her. Her answer was, "Oh! dear, yes, very much; - very droll indeed; - the opening of the House! - & the striking up of the Fiddles!" What she meant, poor woman, who shall say? - I sought no farther.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
John Bigland : System of Geography and History
'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
John Barrow (ed.) : Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to China
'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Sir George Steuart Mackenzie : Travels in Iceland
'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefacing that having intelligence from Henry that such a work wd soon appear we had desired him to send it whenever it came out - & I beleive [sic] it passed with her unsuspected. She was amused, poor soul! [italics] that [end italics] she cd not help you know, with two such people to lead the way; but she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel : published letter about the status of her marriage to the Prince of Wales
'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because I hate her husband - but I can hardly forgive her for calling herself 'attached & affectionate' to a Man whom she must detest - & the intimacy said to subsist between her & Lady Oxford is bad...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
: Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths section
'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did. He was married at Clifton to a Miss Lewis, whose Father had been late of Antigua.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Newspaper
John Bigland : Letters on the Modern History and Political Aspect of Europe
'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has always happened to delay or curtail the reading hour.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
William Cowper : Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk
'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it, without offence to anybody.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
: Acts 27:44
'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in safety.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Mary Brunton : Self Control
'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probability in it. I declare I do not know whether Laura's passage down the American River is not the most natural, possible, every-day thing she ever does.-'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
George Crabbe : preface to The Borough
'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina
'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume
'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is a delightful burlesque, particularly on the Radcliffe style.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : The Corsair
'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have nothing else to do.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished and has never been published] It has entertained me extremely, all of us indeed. I read it aloud to your G[rand] M[other] & A[un]t C[assandra]. - and we were all very much pleased...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are all very much amused, & like the work quite as well as ever. - I depend on getting through another book before dinner, but there is really a great deal of respectable reading in your 48 pages. I was an hour about it. - I have no doubt that 6 will make a very good sized volume.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to those who are acquainted with P. & P it will seem an imitation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does not please us quite so well, we do not thoroughly like the Play; perhaps from having had too much of Plays in that way lately.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [extensive criticism of the MS follows]... You are now collecting your People delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life; - 3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.' [further comment and criticism follows]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Anna Austen : [unpublished story]
'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may hear it - for it has not been possible yet to have any public reading. I have read it to your Aunt Cassandra however - in our own room at night, while we undressed - and with a great deal of pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Walter Scott : [Poetry]
'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough as a Poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, & do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must[...] I have made up my mind to like no Novels really, but Miss Edgeworth's, Yours & my own.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Thomas Sherlock : Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church
'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Anna Lefroy : unpublished story
'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great pleasure. I think you are going very well.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Caroline Austen : unpublished story
'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the good for nothing Father, who was the real author of all her Faults & Sufferings, should not escape unpunished.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Laetitia Matilda Hawkins : Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost
'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects. There are some very delightful conversations and reflections on religion: but on lighter topics I think she falls into many absurdities; and, as to love, her heroine has very comical feelings. There are a thousand improbabilities in the story. Do you remember the two Miss Ormesdens, introduced just at last? Very flat and unnatural. - Mlle Cossart is rather my passion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis : Olympe et Theophile
'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to be quite my own Neice [sic] in your feelings towards Mde de Genlis. I do not think I could even now, at my sedate time of Life, read "Olimpe et Theophile" without being in a rage. It really is too bad! Not allowing them to be happy together, when they are married. Don't talk of it, pray. I have just let your Aunt Frank the 1st vol. of Les Veilles du Chateau, for Mary Jane to read.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Walter Scott [anon] : review of Emma
'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain of her treatment in it - except in the total omission of Mansfield Park. - I cannot but be sorry that so clever a Man as the Reveiwer [sic] of "Emma" should consider it as unworthy of being noticed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Serial / periodical
Caroline Austen : unpublished story
'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any topic of such absurdity, as the usual description of a Heroine's father.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Edward Cooper : Two Sermons Preached at Wolverhampton
'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the addition of his zeal in the cause of the Bible Society.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Henry Austen : Sermons
'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive [sic], on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Antiquary
'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive, on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Caroline Austen : unpublished manuscript story
'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rather than the Mock Modesty of that french word...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Sheet
Robert Southey : Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo
'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all the world, you know; but parts of it suit me better than much that he has written before. The opening - the Proem I beleive [sic] he calls it - is very beautiful. One cannot but grieve for the loss of the Son so fondly described. Has he at all recovered it?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Fanny Knight : Letters
'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining Letters as you have lately sent! - Such a description of your queer little heart! - Such a lovely display of what Imagination does. [...] I cannot express to you what I have felt in reading your history of yourself, how full of Pity & Concern & Admiration & Amusement I have been...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Manuscript: Letter
Cowper :
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Samuel Johnson : Prose writings
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Unknown
Henry Fielding :
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Samuel Richardson : Sir Charles Grandison
'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; but it is perplexing to find that the grave, moral, austere Dr. Johnson was her favourite prose writer. The coarseness of Fielding she could not forgive, and though she admired "Sir Charles Grandison," she thought Richardson tedious.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Jane Austen : fiction writings
'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read her tales aloud with great effect, "and they were never heard to so much advantage as from her own mouth," says Sir Egerton Brydges, who knew her.'
