Record Number: 23250
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes the History of Manners certainly, yet those which give one nothing else are paltry performances: witness Tom Jones and the Clandestine Marriage, yet they are the best in their kind acording to my Notion'.
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: 14 Jul 1780
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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:27 Jan 1741
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Wales
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:School for Scandal, The
Genre:Drama
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:23250
Source:Hester Lynch Thrale
Editor:Katharine C. Balderston
Title:Thraliana
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1951
Vol:I
Page:446-7
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 446-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=23250, accessed: 23 September 2023
Additional Comments:
Snake is a character in this play