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Record Number: 28126


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a copy of your poem "To a Lady fond of Life?" She shewed it lately to Sir George Lyttleton, who thought and spoke of it as he ought, and earnestly begged for a copy. This she was too honourable to grant. The Bishop of Oxford says she was [italics]too[end italics] scrupulous.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Mrs Donnelon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Elizabeth Carter

Title:

'To a Lady Fond of Life'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28126

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:

199-200

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. 199-200, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28126, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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