1816c.11: Difference between revisions

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(4 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1798
|Year=1816
|Year Number=1
|Year Suffix=c
|Year Number=11
|Headline=Jane Austen Writes of "Baseball" in <u>Northanger Abbey</u><i>.</i>
|Headline=Jane Austen Writes of "Baseball" in <u>Northanger Abbey</u><i>.</i>
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Famous, Females, Fiction,  
|Tags=Famous, Females, Fiction,  
|Location=
|Country=England
|Country=England
|Game=Base Ball,
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197
|State=
|City=
|Modern Address=
|Game=Base Ball
|Immediacy of Report=
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Text=<p>Jane Austen mentions "baseball" in her novel <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Northanger Abbey</span>, written in about 1798 but published in 1818, after her death. "Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books . . . . But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; so read all such works as heroines must read. . . "</p>
|Holiday=
<p>Austen, Jane, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Northanger Abbey</span> (London, 1851), page.3. <strong>Note:</strong> The 2008 "Masterpiece" TV version of this novel included a brief scene in which Catherine, at the age of about 17, plays a baseball-like game [rounders-based, arguably] involving posts with flags as bases. It would be interesting to know how the screenwriter arrived at this depiction.</p>
|Notables=
|Text=<p>Jane Austen mentions "baseball" in her novel <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Northanger Abbey</span>, published in 1818, after her death.</p>
<p>"Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books . . . . But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; so read all such works as heroines must read. . . "</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><span>&nbsp;</span></p>
|Sources=<p>Austen, Jane,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Northanger Abbey and&nbsp;Persuasion</span>, (London, 1818), John Murray, Vol. I, p. 7.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Warning=
|Comment=<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">"Northanger Abbey</span>&nbsp;was published posthumously in 1818, and while most scholars agree the first draft was written in the 1798-99 time period, there is no evidence that Austen's early draft included the baseball reference. It was submitted for publication in 1803 under the name &ldquo;Susan,&rdquo; but never went to press. The text was revised between 1816 and 1817, but did not get published until after Austen&rsquo;s death that summer."&nbsp; (from David Block, 9/16/2020).</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
|Query=
|Source Image=
|External Number=
|Submitted by=
|Submission Note=David Block, email of 9/16/2020
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

Latest revision as of 11:35, 25 September 2020

Chronologies
Scroll.png

Prominent Milestones

Misc BB Firsts
Add a Misc BB First

About the Chronology
Tom Altherr Dedication

Add a Chronology Entry
Open Queries
Open Numbers
Most Aged

Jane Austen Writes of "Baseball" in Northanger Abbey.

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Famous, Females, Fiction
City/State/Country: England
Game Base Ball
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

Jane Austen mentions "baseball" in her novel Northanger Abbey, published in 1818, after her death.

"Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books . . . . But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; so read all such works as heroines must read. . . "

 

 

 

Sources

Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, (London, 1818), John Murray, Vol. I, p. 7.

 

 

Comment

 

"Northanger Abbey was published posthumously in 1818, and while most scholars agree the first draft was written in the 1798-99 time period, there is no evidence that Austen's early draft included the baseball reference. It was submitted for publication in 1803 under the name “Susan,” but never went to press. The text was revised between 1816 and 1817, but did not get published until after Austen’s death that summer."  (from David Block, 9/16/2020).

 

Edit with form to add a comment
Query Edit with form to add a query
Submission Note David Block, email of 9/16/2020



Comments

<comments voting="Plus" />