Evidence: | 'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last fortnight in the country, and perhaps there is no book in the world so pleasant to be on the grass with and read to a charming woman. I have only grudged the transfer of leaves from my right hand to my left, and if you had heard the "Is that all?" of my listener as I closed the last volume, you would have felt that you had not lived in vain - as who has, who has given pleasure to the world, or beguiled weariness, or refined the aspect of life?' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 20 Jul 1835 and 10 Aug 1835 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | N.P. Willis |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Author |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
"a charming woman" |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Mary Russell Mitford |
Title: | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 16708 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | A.G. L'Estrange | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1882 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 290 | |
Additional comments: | Letter from N.P. Willis to Miss Mitford, Manor House, Lee, Sunday August 10, 1835 |
Citation: | A.G. L'Estrange, The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford (London, 1882), 1, p. 290, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16708, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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