Record Number: 10390

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & Daughter of the Name of Payne lived at Ashford in Kent. Do You own them?'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

24 Jan 1809

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Southampton
county: Hampshire
specific address: Castle Square

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Jane Austen

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1775

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)
daughter of clergyman

Occupation:

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Hampshire Telegraph

Genre:

newspaper

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

23 January 1809

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

10390

Source:

Print

Author:

Jane Austen

Editor:

Deirdre Le Faye

Title:

Jane Austen's Letters

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1995

Vol:

n/a

Page:

171

Additional Comments:

Letter from Jane to Cassandra Austen, Tuesday 24 January 1809, from Castle Square, Southampton.

Citation:

Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (ed.), Jane Austen's Letters, (Oxford, 1995), p. 171, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=10390, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None