Evidence: | 'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised: but "somehow", I have taken it into my head that it is [underlined] too good [end underlining] for my palate, |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 20 Nov 1806 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Cheshire specific address: Delamere Lodge |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anna Wilbraham |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | daughter of MP |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Marie "Sophie" Cottin |
Title: | Elisabeth, ou les Exiles de Siberie |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) given to her by her mother to read |
Record ID: | 17566 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Sarah Harriet Burney | |
Editor: | Lorna J. Clark | |
Title: | Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The | |
Place of Publication: | Athens GA / London | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 74 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 74, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17566, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Letter to Charlotte Francis, 20th November 1806. 'Bone' was the nickname of SHB's pupil Anna, daughter of Cheshire MP George Wilbraham. "Somehow" has quotation marks in the passage quoted to mock Mrs Piozzi's style. |
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