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Record 6169

Reading Experience:

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.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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: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

 

Text Being Read:

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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6169  
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: 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

Additional comments:

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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