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Record 8001

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume greatly improves on the first, but I still think it one of the poorest of Miss Austen's novels - that is inferior to "Mansfield Park" and "Pride and Prejudice", which is all I have read.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 22 Sep 1839
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:Henry Crabb Robinson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1775
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Lawyer
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: Jane Austen
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8001  
Source - Print  
  Author: Henry Crabb Robinson
  Editor: Edith J. Morley
  Title: Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their Writers
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1938
  Vol: 2
  Page: 576
  Additional comments: Diary entry for 22 September 1839

Citation: Henry Crabb Robinson, Edith J. Morley (ed.), Henry Crabb Robinson on Books and their Writers (London, 1938), 2, p. 576, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8001, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Crabb Robinson has clearly forgotten reading "Emma" in 1822, or confused "Emma" and "Mansfield Park" (see RED ID 7999).

 

 

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