Record Number: 10394
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1810 and 6 Jun 1811
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:16 Dec 1775
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
daughter of clergyman
Novelist
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Lady of the Lake
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1810
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:10394
Source:Jane Austen
Editor:Deirdre Le Faye
Title:Jane Austen's Letters
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:194
Additional Comments:
Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Thursday 6 June, 1811, from Chawton, Hants.
Citation:
Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters, (Oxford, 1995), p. 194, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10394, accessed: 08 December 2024
Additional Comments:
Le Faye notes that Austen is presumably referring to either canto II, stanza XVII, lines 7-12, or else canto III and the whole of stanza XXIV.