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.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 8 Nov 1800 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Steventon county: Hampshire |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | 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 |
Record ID: | 10355 | |
Source - | ||
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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