Record Number: 18435
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'"At that time [ca 1809]", continued Lady [-], "all the world was engaged in reading Ida of Athens. I think it was likely to please a [italics] vivid imagination [end italics], but would displease the matter of fact reader. The language is, in my opinion, pedantic, and fatigues the eye and ear with a constant glitter of high flown words; though some parts of it are doubtless very beautiful. But the sentiments are so bedizened with tinsel that they are hardly to be made out".'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1809 and 31 Dec 1809
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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:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
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Religion:n/a
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
friend of Charlotte Bury
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Woman, or Ida of Athens
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18435
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:114
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 114, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18435, accessed: 28 March 2024
Additional Comments:
Date of entry unclear as so many places in Bury's diary - the novel was published 1809