Evidence: | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I fancy, though, what in Italian is peculiarly provoking, rugged and inharmonious. The Phenicians, and the Medea, filled me with horror [comments further] [...] The Orestes amused me very well, for its turn is rather comic; and I am now breaking my heart over the Hecuba.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1760 and 31 Jan 1760 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Lambeth | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Catherine Talbot |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 21 May 1721 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Euripides |
Title: | The Phoenician Women |
Genre: | Classics, Drama |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In Italian translation |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28215 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Montagu Pennington | |
Title: | A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1809 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 313-314 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Montagu Pennington (ed.), A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1809), 2, p. 313-314, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28215, accessed: 02 May 2024 |
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