Record Number: 12285

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very extraordinary, but I know not whether she has not added a few [italics] agremens [italics] of invention to them: however, there is some truth. I have been told, in particular, that the history of the fair unfortunate Madame de Barbesierre is so, by people who could not be suspected of romancing. Don't you think that the court of England would furnish stories as entertaining? Say nothing of my malice; but I cannot help wishing that Madame de Noyer would turn her thoughts a little that way. I fancy she would succeed better than the authoress of the "New Atalantis". I am sure I like her method much better, which has, I think, hit that difficult path between the gay and the severe, and is neither too loose, nor affected by pride.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Until: Sep 1709

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Thoresby
county: Nottinghamshire

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1689

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Daughter of fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

nee Lady Mary Pierrepoint.Known by this name until her 1712 marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu.

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Delarivier Manley

Title:

Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean

Genre:

Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1709

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

12285

Source:

Print

Author:

Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu

Editor:

R. Brimley Johnson

Title:

Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1906

Vol:

n/a

Page:

2

Additional Comments:

Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint

Citation:

Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 (London, 1906), p. 2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=12285, accessed: 16 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Lady Mary was reading the first part of the "New Atlantis", as is made clear in a later letter.