'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we changed it for the "Female Quixotte", which now makes our evening amusement; to me a very high one, as I find the work quite equal to what I remembered it. Mrs F.A., to whom it is new, enjoys it as one could wish; the other Mary, I believe, has little pleasure from that or any other book.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Austen family Print: Book
'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we changed it for the "Female Quixotte", which now makes our evening amusement; to me a very high one, as I find the work quite equal to what I remembered it. Mrs F.A., to whom it is new, enjoys it as one could wish; the other Mary, I believe, has little pleasure from that or any other book.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Austen family Print: Book
'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set off for Northumberland to be shut up in Widdrington Tower, where there must be two or three sets of Victims already immured under a very fine Villain.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Austen Family Print: Book
'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set off for Northumberland to be shut up in Widdrington Tower, where there must be two or three sets of Victims already immured under a very fine Villain.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Austen Family Print: Book
'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athens" by Miss Owenson; which must be very clever, because it was written as the Authoress says, in three months. - We have only read the Preface yet; but her Irish Girl does not make me expect much. - If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body, it might be worth reading in this weather.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Austen Family Print: Book
