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Record 11502

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresses?'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1811 and 24 Jan 1813
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: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Novelist
Religion: Church of England
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: Sir George Steuart Mackenzie
Title: Travels in Iceland
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: first published 1811
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11502  
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: 199-200
  Additional comments: Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Sunday 24 January 1813, from Chawton.

Citation: Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 199-200, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11502, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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