Record Number: 27837

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington frequently read to me after school hours, and I to her: I sometimes indulged my fancy in writing verses, or composing rebuses; and my governess never failed to applaud the juvenile compositions I presented to her.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1766 and 31 Dec 1771

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Chelsea

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:

Meribah Lorrington

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Boarding-school governess

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Darby

Title:

poems

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

27837

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

M. J. Levy

Title:

Perdita. The Memoirs of Mary Robinson

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

n/a

Page:

29-30

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

M. J. Levy (ed.), Perdita. The Memoirs of Mary Robinson (London, 1994), p. 29-30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=27837, accessed: 28 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Robinson has previously told in her memoir of her intimate friendship with her governess Meribah Lorrington, also explaining that 'love was the theme' of her poems.