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Record 6235

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] displayed great interest in this literary foremother, and when the 1751 edition of her work appeared, they were struck by her "most remarkable clear understanding and excellent heart".'
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 Carter
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 16 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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Charlotte Trotter Cockburn
Title: works
Genre: Fiction, Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1751 edition of her works
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6235  
Source - Print  
  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: 142
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jacqueline Pearson, Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 142, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6235, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

See Montagu Pennington (ed.) Series of letters between Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot (1808), vol 1, p. 279.

 

 

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