Evidence: | '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.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 8 Feb 1807 and 9 Feb 1807 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Jane Austen |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1775 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) daughter of clergyman |
Occupation: | Novelist |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sarah Harriet Burney |
Title: | Clarentine, A Novel |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 10375 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jane Austen | |
Editor: | Deirdre LeFaye | |
Title: | Jane Austen's Letters | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 120 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Sunday 8 - Monday 9 February, 1807, from Southampton. |
Citation: | Jane Austen, Deirdre LeFaye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10375, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Austen obviously read this work at least three times. |
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