Jane Austen: The Goucher College Library,The Philadelphia Emma

donderdag 15 januari 2015

The Goucher College Library,The Philadelphia Emma

I received a nice email. I really am happy to been asked and off course I will publish it on my weblog.

""As a fan of Jane Austen and her work, we at the Goucher College Library thought you would be interested in our current project: to digitize the rarest book in our Jane Austen Collection –the 1816, American edition of Emma. We are funding our project exclusively through crowdfunding, and we were hoping you could help us spread the word about this exciting project on your blog “Jane Austen”.

Below are the official press release and the project website. If you are able to help us spread the word, we would be extremely appreciative.

Official college press release:

http://blogs.goucher.edu/intheloop/7183/bringing-jane-austens-emma-to-everyone/

Our “Emma in America” Website:

www.goucher.edu/emmainamerica ""

From the website:

A campaign to build a dynamic digital archive that will provide open-access to Jane Austen’s rare 1816 Philadelphia Emma. Along with the digital edition of Emma, the online archive will support contextual materials and text analysis tools to create an interactive experience centered on this exceptional edition from the Goucher College Library’s world class Jane Austen Collection.

The 1816 American edition of Emma

was the first novel of Austen’s to be printed in America,

and the only one to appear in an American edition

during her lifetime (1775-1817).

The Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey, a frequent reprinter of British titles, brought out Emma in two volumes: a more economical format than the three-volume first English edition, which John Murray had released in December 1815 (dated 1816 on the title page). Carey’s edition was printed for him by the firm Justice & Cox of Trenton, New Jersey; neither the print run nor the exact month of publication is known. Why Carey chose to reprint Emma is uncertain. The eminent Austen bibliographer David Gilson has speculated that an influential review of Emma by Walter Scott that appeared in the March 1816 Quarterly Review influenced Carey’s decision. In the absence of international copyright law, there was no need for Austen to be aware of this American edition, and no evidence remains to suggest that she was. The Philadelphia Emma was only belatedly recognized by bibliographers, in part because of the extreme rarity of surviving copies. Geoffrey Keynes’ 1929 Bibliography of Jane Austen lists the 1832-33 publication of all six novels by Carey & Lea of Philadelphia as the first American editions of Austen. David Gilson’s Bibliography of Jane Austen (1982; rev. 1997) does include the Philadelphia Emma, with descriptions of the three copies—one of them Goucher’s—known to him at the time. Three more have since been verified. Even today, the Philadelphia Emma is often unknown to those who are familiar with Austen’s works.

Read also: janeausteninvermont/your-jane-austen-library-gilsons-bibliography-a-review/
Photo from: razoo/story/Goucherlibraryemma
More photo's: theparisreview/emma-cover-to-cover

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Edward Austen Leigh wrote down this description of Jane's appearence in the years just after the family left Southampton.

"She was tall and slender; her face was rounded with a clear brunette complexion and bright hazel eyes.

Her curly brown hair escaped all round her forehead, but from the time of her coming to live at Chawton she always wore a cap, except when her nieces had her in London and forbade it."

Henry Austen said of his sister, " Her stature rather exceeded the middle height; her carriage anad deportment were quiet but graceful; her complexion of the finest texture, it might with truth be said that her eloquent blood spoke through her modest cheek." Henry applied these lines to Jane: " Her pure and eloquent blood spake in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought that you had almost said her body thought."

Portraits of Jane

There have been only two authentic surviving portraits of Jane Austen, both by her sister Cassandra, one of which is a back view! (A poor-quality greycale JPEG and a poor-quality color JPEG of this are available.) The other is a rather disappointing pen and wash drawing made about 1810 (a somewhat manipulated JPEG of this original sketch is available). The main picture of Jane Austen referenced at this site (JPEG) is a much more æsthetically pleasing adaptation of the same portrait, but should be viewed with caution, since it is not the original (for a more sentimentalized Victorian version of this portrait, see this image, and for an even sillier version of the portrait, in which poor Jane has a rather pained expression and is decked out in cloth-of-gold or something, see this image -- for some strange reason, it is this last picture which has been frequently used to illustrate popular media articles on Jane Austen). Here's the silliest version of this portrait ever.
For a fun modern re-creation of the Jane Austen portrait, see the "Photograph" of Jane Austen lounging at a Hollywood poolside (as seen in Entertainment Weekly). See also a deliberately contemporized (but not silly) version of the portrait by Amy Bellinger. The silhouette included at the top of these files (if you have a graphic browser) is not actually known with certainty to be Jane Austen's. Here is another silhouette said to be of Jane Austen, taken from The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen edited by Penelope Hughes-Hallett (formerly published as My Dear Cassandra: The Letters Of Jane Austen).
Silhouettes of Jane Austen's father and mother (that of her father apparently taken at a rather earlier age), a silhouette of Cassandra, and Cassandra's portrait of their niece Fanny Knight (JPEG) are also available.
In 1994, another portrait, claimed to be of Jane Austen, has been discovered among Mr. Clarke's papers, and published in a limited edition (this portrait was reportedly printed in the Daily Telegraph book section of Saturday, March 4 1995). Go to this site for more information (and a scanned image) of the portrait.
A picture of the Austen family coat of arms is also available (both the original greyscale and a rudimentary colorization). The heraldic "blazon" (description) is "Or, a chevron gules between three lions' gambs erect, erased sable armed of the second. Crest: on a mural crown or, a stag sejant argent, attired or." (Note that the ornamental winged child's head at the bottom of the heraldic shield is not actually part of the coat of arms.) The Latin motto, "QUI INVIDIT MINOR EST", can be translated as "Who(ever) envies (me) is lesser/smaller (than I)".

Trifle

Original recipe from Jane Austen's sister-in-law Martha Lloyd:
"Take three Naple biscuits. Cut them in slices. Dip them in sack. Lay them on the bottom of your dish. Then make a custard of a pint of cream and five eggs and put over them. Them make a whipt syllabub as light as possible to cover the whole. The higher it is piled, the handsomer it looks."

Cheesecakes
"Our journey yesterday went off exceedingly well; nothing occurred to alarm or delay us... At Devizes we had comfortable rooms and a good dinner, to which we sat down about five; amongst other things we had asparagus and a lobster, which made me wish for you, and some cheesecakes, on which the children made so delightful a supper as to endear the town of Devizes to them for a long time."
—Jane Austen writing to her sister Cassandra, Queen's Square, Friday (May 17) 1799

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donderdag 15 januari 2015

The Goucher College Library,The Philadelphia Emma

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