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Record 5864

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". She makes little progress with Cook because of her fascination with Sevigne, a "siren" who "seduces me from all other reading"; she feels such an intense response to the letters that it is as if Sevigne "were alive and even now in my room and permitting me to run into her arms."
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
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:Frances Burney
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth 13 Jun 1752
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Reading group
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Cook
Title: Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: reading group

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5864  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jacqueline Pearson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation.
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1999
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 133
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 133, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5864, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Charlotte Barrett (ed), Diary and letters of Madame d'Arblay (1842-6), Vol 1, p. 572.

 

 

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