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Record 11752

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to those who are acquainted with P. & P it will seem an imitation.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 17 Aug 1814
Country: England
Time: afternoon
Place: city: Chawton
county: Hants
   
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: 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)
Cassandra Austen; Cassandra Leigh Austen
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Anna Austen
Title: [unpublished story]
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Sheet
Publication details: never published
Provenance: borrowed (other)
lent by author

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11752  
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: 268
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane Austen to Anna Austen, Wednesday 10- Thursday 18 August 1814, from Chawton, Hampshire.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 268, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11752, accessed: 28 March 2024

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