![]() ![]() Just a few tantalizing glimpses of these readers and their attitudes appear in B. To Everybody’s Jane was needed, I felt, with an exclusive focus on Austen’s But how did Americans initially encounter and respond to Austen’s writings? A prequel of sorts Hybrid fiction, to founding the Jane Austen Society of North America Twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from collecting, to writing ![]() The Popular Imagination, examine what Austen’s readers in America did with-and to-her novels in the Several chapters of my previous book, Everybody’s Jane: Austen in Might hold clues about Austen’s earliest transatlantic readers, who, I had come to realize, represented a missing piece I hoped too that the remaining copies of the 1816 Philadelphia Emma ![]() Of this Emma’s publication approached in 2016, I was keen to see what more, ifĪnything, could be discovered about this first edition of an Austen novel for American readers. It had come to be we would never know, since publisher’s records could not be found. OnlyĮmma had survived, according to the eminent Austen bibliographer David Gilson, and how Of a very rare book owned by Goucher College, where I now teach: theġ816 Philadelphia printing of Jane Austen’s Emma, the sole Austen novel published in the United States during the author’s lifetime. ![]() This book began when my curiosity was sparked by the obscure origins ![]()
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