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Record 3571

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, Hume, and Mr. Leslie, because if you do, I think you may as well throw Paley's last work into the fire."
Century: 1800-1849
Date: 27 Jul 1802
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Anna Letitia Barbauld
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1744
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Author, former schoolteacher
Religion: Unitarian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Paley
Title: Natural Theology
Genre: Other religious, Science
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3571  
Source - Print  
  Author: Anna Letitia Le Breton
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including letters and notices of her family and friends
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1874
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 111
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anna Letitia Le Breton, Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including letters and notices of her family and friends (London, 1874), p. 111, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3571, accessed: 28 March 2024

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