Record Number: 28399

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749, in discussion of her view that his characters Anna Howe and Clarissa Harlowe would have been made happy by marriage:] 'Here I cannot help giving you the Spectator's opinion upon a married state, so agreeable to my way of thinking: "I am verily persuaded, that whatever is delightful in human life, is to be enjoyed in greater perfection in the married than in the single condition." -- No. 476, vol. vii. I am verily persuaded so too; for which reason I [as author] would have married Clarissa.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

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Time

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Place:

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Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1705

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Spectator No. 476

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28399

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Title:

Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1804

Vol:

4

Page:

260-261

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family  (London, 1804), 4, p. 260-261, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28399, accessed: 02 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

NB date in 'Date of Birth of reader/Listener' is date of baptism; see entry in DNB. See p.177n in source for background to Lady Bradshaigh's correspondence with Richardson.