| Evidence: | '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.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 21 Oct 1813 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Kent specific address: Godmersham Park |
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| Reader: | Jane Austen |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1772 |
| 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Crabbe |
| Title: | preface to The Borough |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1810 |
| Provenance: | read in situ in library at Godmersham Park |
| Record ID: | 11559 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jane Austen | |
| Editor: | Deirdre Le Faye | |
| Title: | Jane Austen's Letters | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 243 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen, Thursday 21 October, 1813 from Godmersham Park |
| Citation: | Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 243, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11559, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Crabbe was one of Austen's favourite authors, and it was a long-running family joke that she wanted to marry him. The death of the poet's wife, Sarah Crabbe, occurred on 21 Sept. 1813. |
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