Evidence: | 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are afraid to own they have read the "Voyages"', arguing that accounts of the open sexual freedom of the "Demoiselles of Ottaheite" were less "dangerous" to young British women than the "secret" liaisons of their own society.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Montagu |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 2 Oct 1718 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer / bluestocking |
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: | John Hawkesworth |
Title: | An account of voyages... |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Could be Rev Thomas Bankes' edition, c.1790 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6169 | |
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: | 56 | |
Additional comments: | Full title being read: An account of voyages undertaken for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1702 to 1771) drawn up from the Journals... |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6169, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Reginald Blunt (ed). Mrs Montagu, 'Queen of the blues': her letters and friendships from 1762-1800 (1923), Vol 1, p. 279. 'Bankes's voyage' was a shorthand term for Hawkesworth's longwinded title; his book drew on Joseph Banks's writings as well as those of the captains. |
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