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Record 11749

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Price [the heroine of JA's novel, "Mansfield Park"], she & her younest sister together, who is named Fanny.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 9 May 1814 and 23 Jun 1814
Country: England
Time: morning
Place: n/a
   
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:[Miss] Dusautoy
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: none
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Jane Austen
Title: Mansfield Park
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: first edition of Mansfield Park, published by T. Egerton, 9 May 1814
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11749  
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: 265
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Thursday 23 June 1814, from Chawton, Hampshire.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 265, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11749, accessed: 29 March 2024

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