Evidence: | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752:
'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading some of your last scenes [...] I have made some little marks in the books I had, and as you seem to desire to shorten, I have in some places thrown out words that I thought did not strengthen the sense, &c. &c. [comments further on aspects of characterisations etc] [...] I had wrote thus far, when I recollected I was writing down my own scattered incoherent thoughts, when I had a new book of yours to read; so down went the pen, and I never quitted your book till I finished it (nine o'clock at night). I have run over it very quick, from my own eagerness, and your desire of having it soon, and
can only say, my dear Mr Richardson, do not marry the angel Clementina to the hare-brained Count de Belvidere.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Oct 1752 and 9 Nov 1752 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Anne Donnellan |
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: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Sir Charles Grandison |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
Record ID: | 28389 | |
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Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
Title: | Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
Vol: | 4 | |
Page: | 75-78 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family (London, 1804), 4, p. 75-78, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28389, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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