
Conversation of 1934
Personal Recollections (1981)
Source: A Drink Before the War (1994), Ch. 7.
Conversation of 1934
Personal Recollections (1981)
Letter to Mr. Clarke, librarian to the Prince Regent (1815-12-11) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
Context: I am quite honoured by your thinking me capable of drawing such a clergyman as you gave the sketch of in your note of Nov. 16th. But I assure you I am not. The comic part of the character I might be equal to, but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy, of which I know nothing; or at least be occasionally abundant in quotations and allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own 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 who would do any justice to your clergyman; and I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.
“vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty;”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
On The Jerry Springer Show