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- English
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Reading Austen in America
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and its Readers
- 1 The Origins of the First Austen Novel Printed in America
- 2 Tales of Three Copies: Books, Owners, and Readers
- 3 An Accomplished Scotswoman Reads Austen Abroad: Christian, Countess of Dalhousie in British North America
- Part Two Transatlantic Austen Conversations
- 4 Enthusiasts Connected Through the “Electric Telegraph of Genius”: The Quincy Sisters of Boston and the Francis W. Austen Family of Portsmouth
- 5 Collectors and Bibliographers: Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore and David J. Gilson of Oxford
- Appendix: Census of Surviving Copies of the 1816 Philadelphia Emma
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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