Evidence: | '[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by a lady".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Carter |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 17 Dec 1717 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Classicist / 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: | Emilie de Chatelet |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Science, Mathematics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6233 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 141 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6233, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
See Montagu Pennington (ed.) Series of letters between Carter and Catherine Talbot (1808), vol. 1, p. 144. |
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