| Evidence: | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which shaped her fullest treatment of the subject in "Northanger Abey".' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799, 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Jane Austen |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1775 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Eaton Barrett |
| Title: | The Heroine |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 133 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 144 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 144, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=133, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See R.W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (Oxford, 1969) p.377 |
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