Evidence: | '"At that time [ca 1809]", continued Lady [-], "all the world was engaged in reading Ida of Athens. I think it was likely to please a [italics] vivid imagination [end italics], but would displease the matter of fact reader. The language is, in my opinion, pedantic, and fatigues the eye and ear with a constant glitter of high flown words; though some parts of it are doubtless very beautiful. But the sentiments are so bedizened with tinsel that they are hardly to be made out".' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1809 and 31 Dec 1809 | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Lady [-] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | friend of Charlotte Bury |
Author: | Sydney Owenson |
Title: | Woman, or Ida of Athens |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18435 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charlotte Bury | |
Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
Vol: | II | |
Page: | 114 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18435, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Date of entry unclear as so many places in Bury's diary - the novel was published 1809 |
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