Record Number: 28312
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:] 'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writings or conversation of a licentious profligate infidel like the Abbe R---- that can compose the astonished mind amidst the awful terrors of a midnight storm, such as you so nobly describe: you well know that from sources such as these no solid comfort can be derived, why then will you idly spend your time in reading what ought never to have been written? But you do it, you say, merely for amusement: 'tis dangerous amusement to a mind like yours, indeed to any mind.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1781 and 9 Jan 1782
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1715
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
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Country of Origin:Ireland
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
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Genre:Philosophy
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:28312
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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:4
Page:300-301
Additional Comments:
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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), 4, p. 300-301, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28312, accessed: 04 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Author of text/s read conjecturally identified by source ed.; see p.300n.