Evidence: | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals", who provided "a very pleasing relaxation from her severer studies" (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, vol 1, p. 69). According to him, she disliked realist fiction, though she made an exception for Burney's which she read with "increasing approbation more than once": her favourite was "Evelina" (Memoirs, p. 299). She also enjoyed Jane West (who dedicated "A Tale of the Times" to her) and Ann Radcliffe, who impressed her, according to Pennington, by "the good tendency of all her works, the virtues of her principal characters... and her accurate, as well as vivid delineation of the beauties of nature" (Memoirs, p. 300). She thought "A Sicilian Romance" "elegant" and praised its "good" moral (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, Vol III, p. 323).' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Carter |
Age | Unknown |
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 |
Author: | |
Title: | a number of novelists |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6471 | |
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: | 140-1 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 140-1, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6471, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Montagu Pennington (ed) Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Montagu (1817) and Montagu Pennington (ed) Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter (1807). |
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