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"I burn with contempt for my foes": Jane Austen's music collections and women's lives in regency England. (Conference Papers).

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From: Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
Date: 20010101
Author:Sandock, Mollie

JANE AUSTEN "had a natural taste for" music, as her niece Caroline recalled (6-7); her nephew James Edward remembered that she practiced the piano daily for several hours before breakfast, and she sometimes sang in the evenings:

Jane herself was fond of music, and had a sweet voice, both in singing and in conversation; in her youth she had received some instruction on the pianoforte; and at Chawton she practised daily, chiefly before breakfast. I believe she did so partly that she might not disturb the rest of the party who were less fond of music. In the evening she would ...

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