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'Volume the Third' - notebook containing two early novels, "Evelyn" and "Catharine, or the Bower", by Jane Austen, 6 May 1792 - 19 August 1809. 'To Miss Austen. Madam, Encouraged by your warm patronage of The Beautiful Cassandra, and The History of England, which through your generous support, have obtained a place in every library in the Kingdom, and run through Fourscore [?] Editions, I take the liberty of begging the same Exertions in favour of the following novel, which I humbly flatter myself, possesses merit beyond any already published...The Author'. 'Catherine had the misfortune, as many heroines have had before her, of losing her Parents when she was very young, and of being brought up under the care of a Maiden Aunt, who while she tenderly loved her, watched over her conduct with so scrutinizing a severity, as to make it very doubtful to many people, and to Catherine amongst the rest, whether she loved her or not. She had...been sometimes obliged to relinquish a Ball because an Officer was to be there, or to dance with a Partner of her Aunt's introduction in preference to one of her own Choice. But her Spirits were naturally good, and not easily depressed, and she possessed such a fund of vivacity and good humour as could only be damped by some very serious vexation..'.

Date

1792

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_382

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NA

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NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,4Mo (2,4Mo) / 46,0cm x 27,4cm / 5433 x 3240 (300dpi)

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England library job arts country book occupation English word text location century notes profession handwriting notebook literature novel B&W British Library manuscript lettering writer fiction author 19th century black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century fictional nineteenth century novelist object English literature Jane Austen Austen Jane Heritage Art 19th-century