Record Number: 6476
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "very defective" if not "positively bad" (Memoirs, p. 299). Carter's letters however show enthusiasm at least for "Emmeline", and deep sympathy for Smith's domestic situation: she tries hard to be fair even to the "democratic" Desmond, suggesting its critics are "perhaps prejudiced against it", while she has found the included poems "very beautiful" (Letters... to Mrs Montagu, vol III, 295-333)'
Century:1700-1799
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:16 Dec 1717
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Classicist / bluestocking
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Desmond
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:6476
Source:Jacqueline Pearson
Editor:n/a
Title:Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation.
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:141
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6476, accessed: 09 December 2023
Additional Comments:
See Montagu Pennington (ed) Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Montagu (1817) and Montagu Pennington (ed) Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Elizabeth Carter (1807).
