Evidence: | 'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involvement and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going, but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early!' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Mar 1826 | ||||||||||
Country: | Unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Sir Walter Scott |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 15 Aug 1771 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | Novelist and poet |
Religion: | Anglican |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | Pride and Prejudice |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 8005 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Walter Scott | |
Editor: | J.G. Tait | |
Title: | Journal of Walter Scott 1825-32 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1939 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 135 | |
Additional comments: | Journal entry, 14 Mar 1826 |
Citation: | Walter Scott, J.G. Tait (ed.), Journal of Walter Scott 1825-32 (London, 1939), 1, p. 135, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8005, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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