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Help[Games] Re: Jane Austen CAF Dice Game
in reply to a message by LadyBug
Surname: Elliot
House: Delaford
DW: Penelope Susan Vernon
--Daughter of a clergyman; accomplished at singing
DH: Sidney Walter
-- Surgeon; Lives on a country estate; Met DW at the Bath assembly
DD: Augusta Dorothy
-- Fishing
DD: Matilda Mary
-- Baseball (although I don't think they played baseball in Regency England, especially not girls!)
DS: Philip Arthur
-- Baseball
DS: Frank Charles
-- Fishing
DS: Benjamin Thomas
-- Fishing
DD: Alice Jemima
-- Baseball
DD/DD: Henrietta Eleanor/ Caroline Louisa
-- Drawing/Painting// Baseball
DS: Edmund George
-- Baseball
.Catherine Ann Genevieve.
House: Delaford
DW: Penelope Susan Vernon
--Daughter of a clergyman; accomplished at singing
DH: Sidney Walter
-- Surgeon; Lives on a country estate; Met DW at the Bath assembly
DD: Augusta Dorothy
-- Fishing
DD: Matilda Mary
-- Baseball (although I don't think they played baseball in Regency England, especially not girls!)
DS: Philip Arthur
-- Baseball
DS: Frank Charles
-- Fishing
DS: Benjamin Thomas
-- Fishing
DD: Alice Jemima
-- Baseball
DD/DD: Henrietta Eleanor/ Caroline Louisa
-- Drawing/Painting// Baseball
DS: Edmund George
-- Baseball
.Catherine Ann Genevieve.
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One of the earliest refrences to baseball...(m)
One of the earliest refrences to baseball can be found in Jane Austen's early novel 'Nothanger Abbey'. Baseball is mentioned in Chapter One of that, my favorite novel, as being played by the heroine Catherine Morland who had seven brothers and as a tomboy was not quite fit for "an heroine".
Here is the quote: "...and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books — or at least books of information...".
But you are right, most girls probably would have better things to do with their time.
The things you learn about silly sbjects on this site! Ah me! :D
http://kevan.org/johari?name=LadyBug19
One of the earliest refrences to baseball can be found in Jane Austen's early novel 'Nothanger Abbey'. Baseball is mentioned in Chapter One of that, my favorite novel, as being played by the heroine Catherine Morland who had seven brothers and as a tomboy was not quite fit for "an heroine".
Here is the quote: "...and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books — or at least books of information...".
But you are right, most girls probably would have better things to do with their time.
The things you learn about silly sbjects on this site! Ah me! :D
http://kevan.org/johari?name=LadyBug19
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