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Record Number: 18434


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I visited Lady [-], who was engaged in reading Miss F[errier]'s new novel. I told her, I heard she did not acknowledge being the authoress. Lady [-] observed it was surprising she should be so well acquainted with the living, talking, &c., of fashionable people, as she had heard that Miss F[errier] knew nobody belonging to that class of persons except the Argyll family'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Lady [-]

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

friend of Charlotte Bury



Text Being Read:

Author:

Susan Ferrier

Title:

Marriage

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18434

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

107

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 107, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18434, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Date unclear as so many places in Bury's diary - the novel was published 1818

   
   
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