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Elizabeth Gaskell : Cranford
�Many thanks and belated for the parcel you sent about a week ago and your letter. The apples are always a good thing to have and these remained fresh. I have not answered before because I have spent all my spare moments during the last week reading with avidity "Cranford." I bought it in how-much-would-you-give-to-know-where: the only English book in the bookshop left standing there: an English edition published in France, retaining the �loin� for �lion� misprint. That I had not read it before I count as a great gain, as it enabled me to read it now. Now you can never put it in my epitaph �He had never read Cranford, nor reading it had he failed to enjoy it.� You can make the remark about Jane Austen, however.�
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Charles Hamilton Sorley / Book
James Austen-Leigh : A Memoir of Jane Austen
'Read Life of Jane Austen. Unpacked.'
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Verena Vera Pennefather / Book
Jane Austen : [unknown]
'I enjoy this peaceful interval of sickness and read the works of Jane Austen, released from a fear of death which, ever present in this land of unknown diseases, seemed for a day or two to be creeping near.'
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Novels
I meanwhile have been doing nothing except read Jane Austen. I have stopped seeing people for a week, as it hurts the voice to talk much, but had one visit from the Ba Surra of Do'an, very affectionate and inviting me for ten days or a fortnight.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea- table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea- table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea- table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Emma
I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea- table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey
I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea- table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
Jane Austen : Persuasion
I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancipation seem! Nothing that is not genuine can stand this primitive severity. But Jane would have been quite at home and talked tea- table gossip with the ladies of Huraidha.
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Freya Stark / Book
William Cowper : unknown
'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'
Century: 1700-1799 / Reader: George Austen / Book
Charlotte Lennox : The Female Quixote, or, the Adventures of Arabella
'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we changed it for the "Female Quixotte", which now makes our evening amusement; to me a very high one, as I find the work quite equal to what I remembered it. Mrs F.A., to whom it is new, enjoys it as one could wish; the other Mary, I believe, has little pleasure from that or any other book.'
Century: 1800-1849 / Group: Austen family / Book
Eaton Stannard Barrett : The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina
'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'
Century: 1800-1849 / Reader: Jane Austen / Book
Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very different from the other two, ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"] but does not seem to think it at all inferior...'
Century: 1800-1849 / Reader: Henry Austen /
Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility
'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced Prince Regent she discussed and exchanged books with her friend Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, including memoirs and recent history, Byron's poems, and novels including Gothic fiction and works by Anne Plumptre and Jane Austen. (The perceptive Charlotte especially enjoyed "Sense and Sensibility" because she discerned in herself"the same imprudence" as Marianne's).'
Century: 1800-1849 / Reader: Princess Charlotte / Book
George Gordon, Lord Byron : [poems]
'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced Prince Regent she discussed and exchanged books with her friend Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, including memoirs and recent history, Byron's poems, and novels including Gothic fiction and works by Anne Plumptre and Jane Austen. (The perceptive Charlotte especially enjoyed "Sense and Sensibility" because she discerned in herself "the same imprudence" as Marianne's).'
Century: 1800-1849 / Reader: Princess Charlotte / Book
: [memoirs and history]
'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced Prince Regent she discussed and exchanged books with her friend Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, including memoirs and recent history, Byron's poems, and novels including Gothic fiction and works by Anne Plumptre and Jane Austen. (The perceptive Charlotte especially enjoyed "Sense and Sensibility" because she discerned in herself"the same imprudence" as Marianne's).'
Century: 1800-1849 / Reader: Princess Charlotte / Book
Anne Plumptre : [novels]
'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced Prince Regent she discussed and exchanged books with her friend Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, including memoirs and recent history, Byron's poems, and novels including Gothic fiction and works by Anne Plumptre and Jane Austen. (The perceptive Charlotte especially enjoyed "Sense and Sensibility" because she discerned in herself"the same imprudence" as Marianne's).'
Century: 1800-1849 / Reader: Princess Charlotte / Book
Jane Austen : [novels]
E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.'
Century: 1900-1945 / Reader: Edward Morgan Forster / Book
Charles Dickens : unknown
'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57] ... guided by ... [their father] they were ranging ... through the works of Dickens, Scott, Trollope, and Jane Austen. Much of what they read was advanced fare for children of nine and ten ...'
