'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired., both satires on female misreading which shaped her fullest treatment of the subject in "Northanger Abey".' Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. 'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book I don't know if it would interest you, who have the real thing under your eyes, as much as it interests us, or I would put it into the next box that is sent.' Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book 'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture of an old Mohammedan officer in the old sepoy army. In the enthusiasm created by it one of them, an old Peninsular officer, instructed me carefully how to make a pontoon bridge and get my (!) troops over it while the other, Admiral Collinson, burst forth into naval experiences.' Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book 'Pray tell him that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember being very much amused by the opening out of two old neighbours of mine at Ealing, after a discussion of his first volume. 'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.' Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Austen Print: Book Francis Lathom : Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real Life
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