Record Number: 128
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century:1700-1799, 1800-1849
Date:unknown
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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:16 Dec 1775
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Coelebs in Search of a Wife
Genre:Fiction, Conduct books
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:128
Source:Jacqueline Pearson
Editor:n/a
Title:Women?s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation.
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:144
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jacqueline Pearson, Women?s Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation., (Cambridge, 1999), p. 144, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=128, accessed: 12 December 2024
Additional Comments:
See R.W. Chapman (ed.) Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford, 1969)