Evidence: | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manners obsolete, & I felt fidgeted at the repetitions not being 15, yet surely it is wonderfully wrought."' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Apr 1792 and 30 Apr 1792 | ||||||||||
Country: | England (?) | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anna Larpent |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Daughter of a diplomat and wife of a civil servant |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5996 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | John Brewer | |
Editor: | James Raven | |
Title: | The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader' | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1996 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 230 | |
Additional comments: | Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor. |
Citation: | John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 230, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5996, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Brewer gets his information from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum HM 31201 . |
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