Record Number: 20615

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition from your pen would have made a very delightful fashionable tale'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Until: 30 Nov 1814

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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:

Anne Romilly

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1773

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

nee Garbett

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

Title:

[a narrative]

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ
shown by Mrs Marcet

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20615

Source:

Print

Author:

Anne Romilly

Editor:

Samuel Henry Romilly

Title:

Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

97

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Anne Romilly, Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818 (London, 1936), p. 97, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=20615, accessed: 29 March 2023

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Additional Comments:

Date of birth a guess - she was married in Jan. 1798, aged about 24.