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Record 10390

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'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
Date: 24 Jan 1809
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Southampton
county: Hampshire
specific address: Castle Square
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Hampshire Telegraph
Genre: newspaper
Form of Text: Print: Newspaper
Publication details: 23 January 1809
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10390  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jane Austen
  Editor: Deirdre Le Faye
  Title: Jane Austen's Letters
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 171
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Tuesday 24 January 1809, from Castle Square, Southampton.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 171, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10390, accessed: 23 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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