Evidence: | '[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejudice, "which is at present the fashionable novel. It is written by a sister of Charlotte Smith's and contains more strength of character than other productions of this kind."' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1813 and 31 May 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anne Isabella Milbanke |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 17 May 1792 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | Pride and Prejudice |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | January 1813 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 26374 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Ethel Colburn Mayne | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1929 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 55 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron (London, 1929), p. 55, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26374, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
In n.1, p.55, source author adds: 'That confident announcement [regarding authorship of Pride and Prejudice] she soon found to be premature. In May [1813] she wrote to her mother that there were doubts about the authorship'. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)