tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post5253516015094016120..comments2024-03-27T09:05:59.436-07:00Comments on Jane Austen and Other Writers: Inkle and Yarico: Notes from a ConferenceDianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12396312339372162866noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-90026261979238826012017-04-08T08:37:20.884-07:002017-04-08T08:37:20.884-07:00Your comment has reminded me that Felsenstein has ...Your comment has reminded me that Felsenstein has done an edition, which I own (!), an Inkle and Yarico reader entitled: English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World. It consists of a whole host of texts telling this story, including the one I first read it in: Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford, a verse epistle. She is one of my foremother poets and I know her work because she was the niece of Ann Finch, Countess of Winchelsea. I am very fond of Frances Seymour<br /><br />http://wompherence.proboards.com/thread/173<br /><br />She was a kind, gentle woman, very generous to Anne Finch. I've also read in this volume Steele's and Charles Fox's vese. It was a story that had great resonance for abolitionists. Even Wordsworth weighed in.<br /><br />Prof Felsenstein has a website, but his presence is in highly respected editions and anthologies.<br /><br />EllenEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-65337973450640681912017-04-08T04:29:56.698-07:002017-04-08T04:29:56.698-07:00Thanks Ellen. I didn't know Felsenstein had a ...Thanks Ellen. I didn't know Felsenstein had a web presence. In a panel of older men he was a friendly looking, slim white haired man, pleasing in appearance (as they all were). He has apparently done a good deal of work on the Inkle story. I thought this quote near the end of the Steele essay was telling in light of both Austen and how people give in to perceived (after all, this anxiety goes on only in Inkle's mind) social and economic pressures: "To be short, Mr. Thomas Inkle, now coming into English Territories, began seriously to reflect upon his loss of Time, and to weigh with himself how many Days Interest of his Mony he had lost during his Stay with Yarico. This thought made the Young Man very pensive, and careful what Account he should be able to give to his Friends of his voyage."<br />Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12396312339372162866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-79314426290715288372017-04-07T19:05:48.135-07:002017-04-07T19:05:48.135-07:00Yes superb posting about a complex issue where the...Yes superb posting about a complex issue where the disturbingly popular story of Inkle and Yaricho only lost its hold on the public after the abolition of slavery. It should be a deeply troubling story, and it would be telling if one could gather information on cases where the freed slave is a male. <br /><br />I admit to some side jealousy: for many years now I've read Felsentein's postings and URLs to good essays and other works on slavery. I've never seen what he looks like.<br /><br />Austen could have read the story in other versions beyond Steele's (as you suggest). She did though read and reject Southey's Letters from England where, presenting himself as Spanish, Southey strongly critiqued slavery, the relationship of animals and humans.<br /><br />The more we can learn about this earlier period, given the horrors of our political power cliques, the better off we are in the sense of what to expect.Ellenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-13010295543540654802017-04-07T10:12:51.706-07:002017-04-07T10:12:51.706-07:00Thanks Arnie. I was hoping you would enjoy it.Thanks Arnie. I was hoping you would enjoy it.Diane Reynoldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13116776256936607094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7685533049738406832.post-34588097249810765932017-04-07T10:07:27.351-07:002017-04-07T10:07:27.351-07:00Excellent post, Diane! I will respond in greater l...Excellent post, Diane! I will respond in greater length in the groups. Arnie Perlsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01720424361279466002noreply@blogger.com