Record Number: 18431
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and that I like them better. I hesitated for so long before reading them, because you disparaged them to me. I do not admire herself: she is a hard, unfeeling, misanthropical old sinner. But her mind is so laid open to me, that I pardon her faults and think she could not help them, as I do and think of my own. I have finished her letters to Horace, and am quite angry there is no account of her death. I am now reading her letters to Voltaire, which I cannot endure; they are full of nothing but fulsome flattery, which disgusts me. How much true affection dignifies every thing! but flattery when seen through, is odious. I like the portaits at the end of her book'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Unknown
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Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
correspondent of Charlotte Bury
Text Being Read:
Author:Marie Anne de Vichy-Chambrond, Marquise du Deffand
Title:Letters of the Marquise du Deffand to the Hon. Horace Walpole
Genre:Letters
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18431
Source:Charlotte Bury
Editor:A. Francis Steuart
Title:Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1908
Vol:II
Page:98
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 98, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18431, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Date unclear as so many places in Bury's diary - 1815-1820. Letter received on Jan 4th but year uncertain.