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Eaton Barrett

  

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Eaton Barrett : The Heroine

'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".'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

  

Eaton Stannard Barrett : Six Weeks at Long's

'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this day will thus be better than the beginning.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina

'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

  

Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina

'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Austen      Print: Book

  

Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume

'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is a delightful burlesque, particularly on the Radcliffe style.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

  

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