Record Number: 9171
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Can you tell me about "Jane Eyre", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve it myself, - though I am wholly ignorant of the authorship. I cannot help feeling that the author must know not only my books but myself very well. My own family suppose me in the secret, till I deny it. With much improbability of incident, it is surely a very able book (outside of what I could have done of it) and the way in which the heroine comes out without conceit or egotism is, to me, perfectly wonderful'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Until: 18 Feb 1848
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Ambleside
county: Cumbria
(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:12 Jun 1802
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:Unitarian
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:Jane Eyre
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:9171
Source:Harriet Martineau
Editor:Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle
Title:Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood
Place of Publication:Stanford
Date of Publication:1983
Vol:n/a
Page:96
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Harriet Martineau, Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle (ed.), Harriet Martineau's Letters to Fanny Wedgwood, (Stanford, 1983), p. 96, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9171, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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