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Record 10395

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be conveyed to Mrs Hunter of Norwich [...] Miss Jane Austen's tears have flowed over each sweet sketch in such a way as would do Mrs Hunter's heart good to see; if Mrs Hunter could understand all Miss Jane Austen's interest in the subject she would certainly have the kindness to publish at least 4 vols more about the Flint family...'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1806 and 31 Oct 1812
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: Rachel Hunter
Title: Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1806
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 10395  
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: 195
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane Austen to Anna Austen, Thursday 29- Saturday 31 October, 1812.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 195, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10395, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Le Faye notes: 'The book about which JA and Anna were joking was "Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy" (1806), by Mrs Rachel Hunter of Norwich (1754-1813)'. She also quotes Fanny-Caroline Lefroy: 'The [...] note refers to a voluminous and most tiresome & prosy novel the Aunt and niece had been reading & laughing over, together. It was in eight volumes and the tears of the heroine were for ever flowing.'

 

 

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