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Record 13649

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. '
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1755 and 31 Dec 1803
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1755
Socio-economic group: Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation: Wife/widow of a Church of Scotland Minister
Religion: Church of Scotland
Country of origin: Scotland
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Laurence Sterne
Title: [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13649  
Source - Print  
  Author: Anne Grant
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1807
  Vol: 3
  Page: p.173
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anne Grant, Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 (London, 1807), 3, p. p.173, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13649, accessed: 24 April 2024

Additional comments:

Title identified from external source. Date range given as birth to date of letter.

 

 

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