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Record 125

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
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:Jane Austen
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth 16 Dec 1775
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
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: Charlotte Smith
Title: [novels]
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 125  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jacqueline Pearson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Women?s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation.
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1999
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 144
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jacqueline Pearson, Women?s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 144, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=125, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

See R.W. Chapman (ed.) Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1969)

 

 

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