Library (now held by Dartmouth), she notes that Smith’s book is in In describing the copy of Emma in Jeremiah’s Smith’s Wells is especially adept at making these various readers come to The last sectionĭemonstrates how Austen’s novels were read in nineteenth-centuryĪmerica by a Scotswoman, the Countess of Dalhousie, who lived in Smith, and a Rhode Island circulating library. Wells then turns toĬase studies of three surviving copies of this rare edition–from theĭuPont sisters of Delaware, New Hampshire judge and governor Jeremiah Reading Austenīegins with a discussion of the origins of the 1816 PhiladelphiaĮmma, including circulation, comparison with the LondonĮdition, promotion, and impetus for publication. Wells’s study, serving both as its inspiration (Wells comes acrossĪ rare copy of this book in her own institution’s library) and as The 1816 Philadelphia edition of Emma is the centerpiece of It complements other recent works such as Paula Byrne’s The Genius of Jane Austen (2017), Devoney Looser’s The Making of Jane Austen (2017), and Deidre Lynch’s Janeites: Austen’s Disciples and Devotees (2000). Juliette Wells’s Reading Austen in America considers Austen’s influence outside of Britain, and it serves as a prequel to her earlier book, Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2011).
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