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Record Number: 28139


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, once at Oxford, twice at Richmond with Lady Grey, who is far from well. How dearly you would love her little girl! just turned of five, has no joy but in books, and of those will not read little idle stories such as were first given to her [...] her knowledge in geography and English history is astonishing; her present book is Dr Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies, which she has almost by heart, and gives the most connected and rational account of it. With all this she is just such a romp as a child ought to be [...] and bating such little weeds of pride and passion as will shoot up spontaneously in every human soil, an exceeding good little heart.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1756 and 13 Apr 1756

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:

anon

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1751

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

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:

Thomas Newton

Title:

Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled

Genre:

Other religious, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1754

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28139

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:

225-226

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. 225-226, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28139, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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