Record Number: 10370
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it.'
Century:1800-1849
Date:30 Aug 1805
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:An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex
Genre:Conduct books
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1797
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:10370
Source:Jane Austen
Editor:Deirdre LeFaye
Title:Jane Austen's Letters
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1995
Vol:n/a
Page:112
Additional Comments:
Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Friday 30 August 1805, from Goodnestone Farm.
Citation:
Jane Austen, Deirdre LeFaye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters, (Oxford, 1995), p. 112, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10370, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
The editor of Austen's letters assumes the "Gisborne" in question is Thomas Gisborne's "The Duties of the Female Sex". This seems a likely hypothesis, although it could also be one of Gisborne's earlier publications, possibly his poetry.