There's.much to delight in throughout this book." - Publishers Weekly Details about early American publishing make up a great deal of the book's early sections and provide fascinating insight into the reading habits of the country. "Austenites and bibliophiles will enjoy this survey from Wells ( Everybody's Jane) of the early American response to Jane Austen. It is an intriguing mode of both history and historiography, and one that the young Jane Austen would likely have found rather compelling." - College Literature "Combining the narrative history of biography with the detail of the collector, Wells weaves a story that charms and interests even despite (and likely because of) its rather immediate, dare one say, nerdiness (and one says such a thing with both respect and appreciation). These entertaining personal histories will open more eyes to the possibilities behind unearthing copies of the 1816 Philadelphia Emma." - JASNA News Judging from the 'fandom' of the Quincys and library patrons, reader reception can provide fascinating insights. "In presenting facets of Wells' current scholarship, readers will welcome this 'collected' volume.
"Juliette Wells creates living portraits of Austen's earliest American readers and admirers and of their devotion to a novelist who would gradually become known and beloved around the world." - Winterthur Portfolio
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. 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. 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.
Description 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.
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