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Susanna Arabella Thrale

 

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Moliere [pseud.] : Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

  

John Dryden : Song for St. Cecilia's Day

'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

  

Alexander Pope : Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day

'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

  

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne : Letters

'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

  

Vincent de Voiture : Letters

'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delights - odd enough - in reading Voiture and Sevigne.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Susanna Arabella Thrale      Print: Book

 

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