Record Number: 5995

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental novel "Marienne" by Pierre Marivaux.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

1 Jul 1780

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: King's Thorpe
county: Northamptonshire

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

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anna Larpent

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1758

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Daughter of a diplomat and wife of a civil servant

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Lady friends

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Pierre Marivaux

Title:

Marienne

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5995

Source:

Print

Author:

John Brewer

Editor:

James Raven

Title:

The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader'

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1996

Vol:

n/a

Page:

242

Additional Comments:

Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor.

Citation:

John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 242, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5995, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Brewer gets his information from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum HM 31201 .