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Record 10355

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth transmitting.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 8 Nov 1800
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: city: Steventon
county: Hampshire
   
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 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Madame de Genlis
Title: les Veillees du Chateau
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: published in French 1784, trans. 1785 as Tales of the Castle
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10355  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jane Austen
  Editor: Deirdre LeFaye
  Title: Jane Austen's Letters
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 54-5
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Saturday 8 to Sunday 9 November 1800, from Steventon Rectory, Hants.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre LeFaye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 54-5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10355, accessed: 29 March 2024

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