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Record Number: 28042


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751: 'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on the whole, and yet it so far amuses me that I am glad to take it in rather than any other.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 May 1751 and 8 Jun 1751

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Cuddesdon
county: Oxfordshire

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


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:

Writer

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

The Idler

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28042

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:

33

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. 33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28042, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Source ed. notes that text could not have been Johnson's Idler, which did not appear until 1758; see p.33.

   
   
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