Record Number: 28037

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751: 'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age [...] Have you read Fielding's excellent, incomparable "Patriot," truly patriot book? or the Bishop of Worcester upon Gin? -- Yet these things can be published, talked of, acknowledged to be just and well writ, and not wake one statesman out of his dream of ambition, or fashion, or amusement, into care of the real interests of the public. Not one heart seems to glow with the desire of extirpating villainy or preventing misery and pain. Very soon we shall be a nation of savages.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1751 and 29 Feb 1751

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:

Catherine Talbot

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

21 May 1721

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

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:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Fielding

Title:

[?The] Patriot

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28037

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Montagu Pennington

Title:

A Series of Letters Between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1809

Vol:

2

Page:

9-10

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Montagu Pennington (ed.), A Series of Letters Between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1809), 2, p. 9-10, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28037, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None