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Record Number: 5819


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

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:

Elizabeth Carter

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1717

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Classicist / bluestocking

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:

Teresia Constantia Phillips

Title:

An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constantia Phillips

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

5819

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

138

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 138, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5819, accessed: 24 April 2024


Additional Comments:

See Montagu Pennington (ed) Series of letters between Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot, Vol I, p. 307.

   
   
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