| Evidence: | 'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading Smollett's History [...] She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There seem to have been more weak kings than wise ones."' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1802 and 17 May 1803 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anne Isabella Milbanke |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 17 May 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| 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: | Tobias Smollett |
| Title: | History |
| Genre: | History, Biography, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 26044 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Ethel Colburn Mayne | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1929 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 7 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Ethel Colburn Mayne, The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron (London, 1929), p. 7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26044, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
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