Evidence: | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced Prince Regent she discussed and exchanged books with her friend Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, including memoirs and recent history, Byron's poems, and novels including Gothic fiction and works by Anne Plumptre and Jane Austen. (The perceptive Charlotte especially enjoyed "Sense and Sensibility" because she discerned in herself"the same imprudence" as Marianne's).' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1811 and 1817 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Princess Charlotte |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1796 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
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Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | Sense and Sensibility |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 146 | |
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Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreeation | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 181 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreeation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 181, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=146, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
See Arthur Aspinall (ed.) "The Letters of the Princess Charlotte", 1811-1817 (1949). Charlotte also wrote, in response to "Sence and Sencibility" [sic]: 'I think Maryanne and me are very like in disposition.' |
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