Evidence: | 'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or works of sentimental fiction); twenty-two French works of fiction, including Rousseau, Marivaux, Marmontel and Voltaire; Italian imaginative literature, especially Goldoni and Netastasio; thirty-six French plays, notably those of Corneille; thirty-eight English plays, especially Shakespeare; more than sixty works on history, biography and social science, including Gibbon, Hume, Raynall, Rollin, Giucciardini, Adam Smith, Monboddo and Ferguson; sixteen books of natural philosophy, notably Fontenelle, Smellie, Goldsmith and the entire literature of the South Sea voyages; belles-lettres and criticism to the tune of forty-five volumes, among them Pope, Johnson, Boileau, Du Bos, Swift and Chesterfield; twenty-seven works of classics in translation, with Plutarch, Seneca, Virgil and Cicero as special favourites; a baker's dozen of advice books; forty-six collections of sermons and works of piety chiefly from latitudinarian divines but also from high churchmen and papists; the English poetic classics Spenser, Milton, Gay, Pope, Thomson, Young and Gray - as well as a smaller body of travel literature and miscellaneous work that is difficult to identify.' |
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Reader: | Anna Larpent |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Diplomat's daugher and civil servant's wife |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | various |
Title: | various |
Genre: | Sermon, Other religious, Fiction, Drama, Essays / Criticism, History, Poetry, Social Science, Biography, Geography / Travel, Politics, Philosophy, Conduct books, Science, Natural history, Reference / General works, Over 400 titles in every conceivable genre |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6155 | |
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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: | 229 | |
Additional comments: | James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor editors. April 1792. |
Citation: | John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The Practice and Representation of Reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 229, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6155, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
Brewer gets his information from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum, HM 31201. The diaries describe her reading from 1773 to 1828. |
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