| Evidence: | "According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediately saw through his deception: she 'was so well versed in his author, as tacitely she traced him to the bottom of a leaf.'" |
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| Century: | 1600-1699 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | anon |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| 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) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Sir Philip Sidney |
| Title: | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5205 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Stephen B. Dobranski | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 2005 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 75 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Stephen B. Dobranski, Readers and Authorship in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), p. 75, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5205, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
| Quotation from William J. Thoms, ed., Anecdotes and Traditions Illustrative of Early English History and Literature (London, 1839) 64. |
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