| Evidence: | 'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn found them out & recommended them, & if the judgement of a Yahoo can ever be depended on, I suppose it may now, for I beleive [sic] Mr Evelyn has all his life thought more of Horses than of anything else.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Steventon county: Hampshire |
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| Reader: | Jane Austen |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1775 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) daughter of clergyman |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| 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 |
| Author: | Jonathan Swift |
| Title: | Gulliver's Travels |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 10354 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jane Austen | |
| Editor: | Deirdre LeFaye | |
| Title: | Jane Austen's Letters | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 47 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Wednesday 19 June, 1799, from 13, Queen Square, Bath. |
| Citation: | Jane Austen, Deirdre LeFaye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10354, accessed: 30 March 2023 | |
| Austen's familiar and apt allusion to a "Yahoo" presupposes that she had read "Gulliver's Travels". |
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