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Reading Austen in America
Reading Austen in America | Juliette Wells
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Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and developed in America, and how American readers contributed to the rise of Austen's international fame. Drawing on a range of sources that have never before come to light, Juliette Wells solves the long-standing bibliographical mystery of how and why the first Austen novel printed in America-the 1816 Philadelphia Emma-came to be. She reveals the responses of this book's varied readers and creates an extended portrait of one: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie, a Scotswoman living in British North America. Through original archival research, Wells establishes the significance to reception history of two transatlantic friendships: the first between ardent Austen enthusiasts in Boston and members of Austen's family in the nineteenth century, and the second between an Austen collector in Baltimore and an aspiring bibliographer in England in the twentieth.
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Mdargusch
Reading Austen in America | Juliette Wells
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I went to the first lecture in a series of four about Jane Austen this morning. The lecturer was the author of tagged book. Has anyone read it? I immediately ran next door to the bookstore and bought it as well as two Penguin editions where she wrote the introduction. 😳

#justsaynotobookbuyingban

I‘m looking forward to lecture number two this afternoon!

Bookish_B I have. It read it but I'll be adding it to my TBR! Thanks 👍🏼 6y
rubyslippersreads This sounds great. 6y
Mdargusch I didn‘t realize the US was such an influence in Austen‘s popularity so I‘m anxious to read about it. @rubyslippersreads @Bookish_B 6y
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youneverarrived That cover of Persuasion is beautiful! 6y
CrowCAH No I haven‘t read it, but perhaps I should! So excited to hear you went to an Austen lecture 😍 6y
LeahBergen This sounds so good! Stacked. 6y
Cathythoughts The lectures sound really interesting! Enjoy 6y
tammysue Stacked! 😀 6y
BarbaraBB This sounds great, these lectures! 6y
batsy That is a lovely cover for Persuasion! And these lectures sound great. 6y
DivineDiana No. But these covers are gorgeous! ❤️ 6y
Mdargusch Lecture 2 she covered Austen‘s first three books. @CrowCAH @Cathythoughts @BarbaraBB @batsy 6y
Mdargusch I already have a set of Jane Austen Books but I had to get these two Penguin versions because of their covers. 🤦🏼‍♀️ well and also because of the introductions by Juliette Wells. @youneverarrived @DivineDiana (edited) 6y
Mdargusch It definitely seems like a book you would like @LeahBergen 👍🏼 6y
emilyhaldi Oh cool! I didn't realize she wrote the introductions 😄 excited to hear how her book is! 6y
Reviewsbylola No, but those covers are so amazing. 6y
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Librarybelle
Reading Austen in America | Juliette Wells
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#libraryhaul ...one is absolutely brain candy, and the other is for the scholar in me.