I have a reproduction of the sampler which I bought at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath some years ago. It appears the stitching could have been done by a girl around that age. If it was done in 1787, Jane Austen would have been almost twelve years old. Stitches below the 9 seem to have been picked out or frayed. The text says 1797, but may have originally said 1787.
It is cross-stitched on linen, mostly in plum and green silk, with quotes from the Psalms.
Someone named Jane Austen stitched this lovely, well-worn sampler in 1797 or 1787. The white marks below the word “out” are damage to the print, not the sampler.) Drawing on new research in the two collectors’ personal archives, this presentation establishes the importance to Austen reception history of their pursuit of items that held great personal importance to them.ĭid Jane Austen stitch this sampler? (Photos are of a reproduction. Burke’s was the collection formed by Charles Beecher Hogan, Yale class of 1928, which included the topaz cross necklace owned by Austen. Burke donated it to the Jane Austen House in Chawton, England. of Austen manuscripts, editions, translations, and ephemera–plus one famous relic, a lock of Jane Austen’s hair, which made international news when Mrs. Alberta Hirshheimer Burke, Goucher College class of 1928, built the most extensive collection in the U.S. Just over a century after Jane Austen’s death in 1817, devoted readers sought out her letters and personal possessions, as well as first and rare editions of her novels. 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 Excerpt from the advert from the Ivy Bookshop: One guest lecturer will be Juliette Wells, author of ‘Reading Austen in America’ (see Project MUSE’s review of the book at this link and purchase the book at this link to Amazon prime. The intimate setting is meant to encourage public feedback and critical dialogue.
Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore-based professors and students will share new work in the public humanities and oriented toward broader public audiences. Good news for Janeites who live within striking distance of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD! At 7:00 PM EST on April 29th, the Bird in Hand, a cafe/bookstore, will be offering the first in a series of workshops on the last Monday of each month in the public humanities.
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