Evidence: | Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756:
'My good old folks --you can't think how I love them! -- the more I believe, because they hearken with such attention and admiration to Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison, which latter I have now begun to them [sic]. They believe both Clarissa and Sir Charles to be real stories, and no work of imagination, and I don't care to undeceive them. The good man is more than three score, he believes [...] They love each other, and the husband rejoices in the balance of sense being of her side, which it is, in some degree, and glories in her being able to read and write, which he can scarcely do.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1755 and 11 Feb 1756 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Ryde | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Margaret Collier |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Elderly neighbours (married couple). |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Sir Charles Grandison |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28024 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
Title: | The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 99-100 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family (London, 1804), 2, p. 99-100, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28024, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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