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Record 10393

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & they are all reaidng with delight Mrs H. More's recent publication.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 31 May 1811
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:Harriot Webb
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: unknown
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: Hannah More
Title: Practical Piety
Genre: Other religious, Fiction, Conduct books
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1811
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10393  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jane Austen
  Editor: Deirdre Le Faye
  Title: Jane Austen's Letters
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1995
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 191
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Friday 31 May, 1811, from Chawton, Hants.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 191, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10393, accessed: 19 April 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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