Evidence: | 'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read "Pride and Prejudice" I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.' |
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Reader: | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 30 Nov 1835 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Author |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | America |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Also known as Mark Twain |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | Pride and Prejudice |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8031 | |
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Author: | Mark Twain | |
Editor: | Albert Bigelow Paine | |
Title: | Mark Twain's Letters | |
Place of Publication: | New York & London | |
Date of Publication: | 1917 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 667 | |
Additional comments: | Letter of 13 September 1898. B.C. Southam (in "Jane Austen: The Critical Heritage", II, 232) notes that the third sentence was added in 'Mark Twain and the Art of Writing', Brander Matthews, "Harper's Magazine", October 1920. |
Citation: | Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (ed.), Mark Twain's Letters (New York & London, 1917), 2, p. 667, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8031, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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