 ... mother tongue, and has read little in that, would be totally without the power of giving. A classical education, or at any rate a very extensive acquaintance with English literature, ancient and modern, appears to me quite indispensable for the person...  The Novels of Jane Austen - Page xxviiiby Jane Austen - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...quotations The Nineteenth Century and After. and allusions, which a woman who,, like me, knows only her mother tongue, and has read little in that, would...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. This diffidence in reply to a very flattering invitation is truly refreshing. Nowadays an author, without... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 882 pages
...equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic. ' the literary. ... I think I may boast myself with ail possible vanity the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. Mr. Clarke, who doubtless believed her, returned briskly to the charge. As private secretary to Prince... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...strange fact to Mr. Clarke. She answers him with admirable gravity, demurely setting herself forth as "the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress," and consequently quite incapable of " drawing such a clergyman as you give the sketch of. ... Such... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...conversation of such a man would naturally abound. She ended by adding that she could boast herself ' to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.' But Mr. Clarke could not abandon the hope of directing the pen of so amiable a writer. He expressed... | |
 | 1870 - 942 pages
...strange fact to Mr. Clarke. She answers him with admirable gravity, demurely setting herself forth as "the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress," and consequently quite incapable of "drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of. ... Such a... | |
 | James Edward Austen-Leigh - Novelists, English - 1871 - 396 pages
...thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of in your note of Nov. i6th. But I assure you I am not. The comic part of the character...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. ' Believe me, dear Sir, ' Your obliged and faithful hum"1 Ser*. 'JANE AUSTEN.'* Mr. Clarke, however,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...city and country, absorbed in his literary studies. " The comic part of the character," she replies, " I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic,...uninformed female who ever dared to "be an authoress." Again, in a letter to a friend, who appears to have been engaged in the composition of a romance :... | |
 | English periodicals - 1914 - 546 pages
...memory for what he read, we are tempted to agree with Jane Austen's estimate of herself that she was ' the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.' 6 In ' Persuasion,' Jane Austen's last and most touching novel, we are introduced to a poetical Captain... | |
 | Henrietta Keddie - 1880 - 420 pages
...was far beyond her. Perhaps in self-defence from similar assaults, she concludes by boasting herself, "with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress." But the irrepressible Mr. Clarke was not to be deterred from his purpose of advising the novelist as... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 396 pages
...thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of in your note of Nov. :6th. But I assure you I am not. The comic part of the character...uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress. ' Believe me, dear Sir, ' Your obliged and faithful hum61 Ser*. 'JANE AUSTEN.'* Mr. Clarke, however,... | |
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