Evidence: | 'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: at sea, in a storm | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Janet Schaw |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 16 Jan |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | unknown |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Schaw's cousin |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Lord Kames |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5892 | |
Source - | ||
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: | 92 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 92, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5892, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
See Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles MacLean Andrews (eds), Janet Schaw, Journal of a lady of quality... in the years 1774-76 (New Haven, 1934), p. 256. |
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