Evidence: | 'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Carter |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1717 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Classicist / bluestocking |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Teresia Constantia Phillips |
Title: | An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constantia Phillips |
Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5819 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 138 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 138, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5819, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Montagu Pennington (ed) Series of letters between Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot, Vol I, p. 307. |
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