In Jane Austen’s letters is this, rather dismissive one about Byron:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have read ” The Corsair, mended my petticoat, and have nothing\nelse to do.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Letter to Cassandra, sent from Henrietta\nStreet: Saturday ,March 5, 1814.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We know,that as an avid reader of new literature\/poems, she had read\u00a0The Giaour<\/em> and\u00a0The Bride of Abydos<\/em>\u00a0by Byron, as she specifically mentions these, with other contemporary poems, in Chapter II of Persuasion, when Anne Elliot discusses poetry with Captain Benwick :<\/p>\n\n\n\n As to JA and Byron socially:I’m sure they moved in very different circles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the exception of these two specific mentions, quoted above, I can’t find any other Byronic references specific to JA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a JASNA Persuasions essay you might care to look at. It might throw some more light on research pointers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barry, Elizabeth.\n“Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Connections”, Persuasions: Journal of\nthe Jane Austen Society of North America. 1986\nDec., 8, 39-41<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Jane Austen’s letters is this, rather dismissive one about Byron: I have read ” The Corsair, mended my petticoat, and have nothing else to do.” Letter to Cassandra, sent from Henrietta Street: Saturday ,March 5, 1814. We know,that as … Continue reading
\nHe was evidently a young man of considerable taste in reading, though\nprincipally in poetry; and besides the persuasion of having given him at least\nan evening’s indulgence in the discussion of subjects, which his usual\ncompanions had probably no concern in, she had the hope of being of real use to\nhim in some suggestions as to the duty and benefit of struggling against\naffliction, which had naturally grown out of their conversation. For, though\nshy, he did not seem reserved: it had rather the appearance of feelings glad to\nburst their usual restraints; and having talked of poetry, the richness of the\npresent age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the\nfirst-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake\nwere to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos, and\nmoreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he shewed himself so intimately\nacquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the\nimpassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of the other;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n