Evidence: | 'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the divine Eumaeus is so worthy a man, that I overlook the unlucky circumstance of his being a hogherd'
[Letter to Elizabeth Carter, October 1746] |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Oct 1746 | ||||||||||
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: | Catherine Talbot |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | unknown |
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: | Homer |
Title: | Odyssey |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | trans. by Alexander Pope |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9226 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Claudia Thomas | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers | |
Place of Publication: | Carbondale and Edwardsville | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 33 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Claudia Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1994), p. 33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9226, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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