Evidence: | 'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefacing that having intelligence from Henry that such a work wd soon appear we had desired him to send it whenever it came out - & I beleive [sic] it passed with her unsuspected. She was amused, poor soul! [italics] that [end italics] she cd not help you know, with two such people to lead the way; but she really does seem to admire Elizabeth. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print...' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 27 Jan 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Chawton county: Hampshire specific address: Chawton Cottage |
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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) |
Miss Benn, Cassandra Leigh Austen |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | Pride and Prejudice |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | first edition, published by T. Egerton, 1813; author's copy. |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 11547 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jane Austen | |
Editor: | Deirdre Le Faye | |
Title: | Jane Austen's Letters | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1995 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 201 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from Jane Austen to Cassandra Austen, Friday 29 January 1813, from Chawton |
Citation: | Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1995), p. 201, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11547, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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