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{{Chronology Entry
|Headline=English Novel Refers to Cricket, Base-ball
|Year=1799
|Year=1799
|Year Number=1
|Headline=Historical Novel, Set in About 1650, Refers to Cricket, Base-ball
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Fiction
|Tags=Fiction,
|Text=<p>Cooke, Cassandra, <u>Battleridge" an Historical tale, Founded on facts.  In Two Volumes.  By a Lady of Quality</u> (G. Cawthorn, London, 1799). </p>
|Country=England
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197000000691
|Game=Base-ball, cricket
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>A character recalls how, when his clerkship to a lawyer ended, a former playmate took his leave by saying:</p>
<p>A character recalls how, when his clerkship to a lawyer ended, a former playmate took his leave by saying:</p>
<p>"Ah! no more cricket, no more base-ball, they are sending me to Geneva." </p>
<p>"Ah! no more cricket, no more base-ball, they are sending me to Geneva."</p>
<p>David Block (page 183) notes that Cooke was in correspondence with Jane Austen in 1798, when both were evidently writing novels containing references to base-ball. Also submitted 8/19/06 by Ian Maun.</p>
<p>David Block (BBWKI, page 183) notes that Cooke was in correspondence with her cousin Jane Austen in 1798, when both were evidently writing novels containing references to base-ball. Also submitted 8/19/06 by Ian Maun.</p>
|Sources=<p>Cooke, Cassandra, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Battleridge" an Historical tale, Founded on facts. In Two Volumes. By a Lady of Quality</span> (G. Cawthorn, London, 1799).</p>
|Submitted by=David Block; Ian Maun
|Submission Note=19CBB Posting 8/18/2015; 8/6/2006
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=1
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Historical Novel, Set in About 1650, Refers to Cricket, Base-ball

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Tags Fiction
City/State/Country: England
Game Base-ball, cricket
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Adult
Text

 

A character recalls how, when his clerkship to a lawyer ended, a former playmate took his leave by saying:

"Ah! no more cricket, no more base-ball, they are sending me to Geneva."

David Block (BBWKI, page 183) notes that Cooke was in correspondence with her cousin Jane Austen in 1798, when both were evidently writing novels containing references to base-ball. Also submitted 8/19/06 by Ian Maun.

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Cooke, Cassandra, Battleridge" an Historical tale, Founded on facts. In Two Volumes. By a Lady of Quality (G. Cawthorn, London, 1799).

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Submitted by David Block; Ian Maun
Submission Note 19CBB Posting 8/18/2015; 8/6/2006



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