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Reading Austen in America / Juliette Wells.

by Wells, Juliette, 1977- author.

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London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Influence.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Appreciation.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Books and reading.

Authors and readers -- United States.

Reader-response criticism -- United States.

9781350012042 paperback

1350012041 paperback

viii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Introduction -- Part one. The 1816 Philadelphia Emma and its readers. The origins of the first Austen novel printed in America -- Tales of three copies : books, owners, and readers -- An accomplished Scotswoman reads Austen abroad : Christian, Countess of Dalhousie in British North America -- Part two. Transatlantic Austen conversations. Enthusiasts connected through the "electric telegraph of genius" : the Quincy sisters of Boston and the Francis W. Austen family of Portsmouth -- Collectors and bibliographers : Alberta H. Burke of Baltimore and David J. Gilson of Oxford.

"Austen in America tells the story of America's long love-affair with Jane Austen and her work. Beginning with the first US edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816, Juliette Wells--author of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination--goes on to explore Austen's American publication history, correspondence with readers through the ages and the work of curators, promoters and fans of Austen in the 21st century."--Provided by publisher.

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