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Record Number: 28232


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! What? Why a reflection upon the Vision, but that was of a kind I will not suffer myself to write [...] 'I am enclosing back the Vision the very night I received it, to prevent all temptations to dishonesty or carelessness; 'tis certainly very elegant.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

1 Sep 1762

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Lambeth

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:

George Lord Lyttelton

Title:

The Vision

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Unknown

Publication Details

Composed 1762

Provenance

borrowed (other)


Source Information:

Record ID:

28232

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:

3

Page:

17

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), 3, p. 17, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28232, accessed: 26 April 2024


Additional Comments:

See p.17n in source for editor's comment that he believes text, of which he possesses a copy, 'not [previously] inserted in any edition of Lord Lyttleton's Poems'; see also 'Series of Letters' vol 4 pp 371-373 for reproduction of text.

   
   
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