Evidence: | Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Clarissa, and your new acquaintance Mr. Monteith. I observe you frequently preferred the company of the former to the latter, and am pleased to find you so partial to my favourite heroine. Never, sure, were characters so well drawn, discriminated and supported as those in ?Clarissa?. ...' [comment continues] |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1755 and 3 Oct 1778 | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 Church of Scotland minister then author |
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 |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 13931 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 2 | |
Page: | p.45-8 | |
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), 2, p. p.45-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13931, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Date range given as birth to date of letter |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)