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Record 5892

Reading Experience:

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').'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: unknown
Time: n/a
Place: other location: at sea, in a storm
   
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: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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Lord Kames
Title: n/a
Genre: Philosophy
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5892  
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: 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

Additional comments:

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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