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Record 10365

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: Laurence Sterne
Title: Tristram Shandy
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10365  
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: 93
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Friday, 14 September, 1804, from Lyme Regis.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre LeFaye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 93, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10365, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

Jane Austen's apt and familiar allusion to Uncle Toby suggests a familiarity with Sterne's novel that indicates she had read the book at least once.

 

 

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