the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Caroline Austen : unpublished story

'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the good for nothing Father, who was the real author of all her Faults & Sufferings, should not escape unpunished.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Manuscript: Sheet

Caroline Austen : unpublished story

'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any topic of such absurdity, as the usual description of a Heroine's father.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Manuscript: Sheet

Caroline Austen : unpublished manuscript story

'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rather than the Mock Modesty of that french word...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Manuscript: Sheet

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