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Record 20020

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'd her from the Vulgar, stood reading the paper I had stuck up, with Regard to writing Letters and Petitions.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1747 and 31 Dec 1748
Country: France or Germany?
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
specific address: Laetitia Pilkington's shop, possibly in St James's
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader: anon
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: France or Germany?
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: a lady, claiming aristocratic pedigree and great ill-use

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Laetitia Pilkington
Title: [notice in her shop window]
Genre: Ephemera
Form of Text: Manuscript: Sheet
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20020  
Source - Print  
  Author: Laetitia Pilkington
  Editor: A.C. Elias
  Title: Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
  Place of Publication: Athens GA
  Date of Publication: 1997
  Vol: I
  Page: 267
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 267, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20020, accessed: 26 April 2024

Additional comments:

The long story occasioned by this act of reading is possibly wholly untrue

 

 

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