Evidence: | [From ed. notes:]
'[Samuel Richardson's] correspondence with Lady [Dorothy] Bradshaigh began in the following manner: -- A lady, calling herself Belfour, wrote to the author of Clarissa, after reading the first four volumes, acquainting him that a report prevailed, that The History of Clarissa was to end in a most tragical manner, and, expressing her abhorrence of such a catastrophe, begged to be satisfied of the truth by a few lines inserted in the Whitehall Evening Post. -- Mr Richardson complied with her request; in consequence of which many letters passed between them.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1705 |
Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa (volumes 1-4) |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28395 | |
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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: | 177 | |
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. 177, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28395, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
NB date in 'Date of Birth of reader/Listener' is date of baptism; see entry in DNB. See pp.177-82 for Lady Bradshaigh's first letter as 'Mrs Belfour,' in which she describes herself as being '[not] a giddy girl of sixteen,' but a woman 'past my romantic time of life, but young enough to wish two lovers happy in a married state' (p.181). |
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