Evidence: | 'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely bewitched me - I was such an old Ass as to sit up last night till three o'clock, reading - and then snuffed out my candle, and went to bed by daylight., The perfect originality of the plan upon which the story is founded, enchants me - and difficult as such an idea was to developpe, Mde de Genlis I think has done justice to her own design - a felicity many authors fail in attaining. -
Oh - (But now another day has passed, and I have finished the three volumes of Alphonsine - and the [underlined] last [end underlining] disgraces the two first - Such a pack of higgledy piggledy stuff, without interest, finish, or any attempt at probability, I never read - Whip the woman!-' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 25 Jun 1807 and 27 Jun 1807 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | night | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Upper Seymour St |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Sarah Harriet Burney |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Aug 1772 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | Christian |
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: | [Madame] de Genlis |
Title: | Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | in three volumes |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) borrowed from Miss James |
Record ID: | 17576 | |
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: | 84 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, the (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 84, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17576, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
letter to Charlotte Barrett 26th June 1807 |
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