If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. These connections range from the obvious – published reviews in foreign newspapers letters written to friends and relatives abroad – to the obscure: marriage contracts, pocket diaries, books from lending libraries, and bookbuyers’ catalogues these are just some of the forms of evidence used to examine the circulation of information during the nineteenth century, as well as the responses that Austen’s readers had to her work. For Juliette Wells in Reading Austen in America, and Sheila Johnson Kindred in Jane Austen’s Transatlantic Sister: The Life and Letters of Fanny Palmer Austen, this ease of travel forms the genesis for their research, as the two trace a network of Austen’s readers and relations across the eastern seaboard of nineteenth-century North America. ‘I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back again and only once, besides being in different places about home – Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar.’ 1 These words, spoken by the naval wife Mrs Croft in Persuasion, underscore the relative confidence with which early nineteenth-century travellers made their journeys overseas.
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