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Record 11547

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'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
Date: 27 Jan 1813
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Chawton
county: Hampshire
specific address: Chawton Cottage
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive 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: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: novelist
Religion: Church of England
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Miss Benn, Cassandra Leigh Austen
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jane Austen
Title: Pride and Prejudice
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: first edition, published by T. Egerton, 1813; author's copy.
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11547  
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: 201
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen, Friday 29 January 1813, from Chawton

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11547, accessed: 28 March 2024

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