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Record Number: 6686


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder that he had not made a Paper of it, as I thought it would have been a very good one. He remembered it not; and spoke handsomely of it.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Oct 1753

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 reactive unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Samuel Richardson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Aug 1689

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

printer and author

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Samuel Johnson


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Lady Bradshaigh

Title:

'Determinta'

Genre:

Unknown

Form of Text:

Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned


Source Information:

Record ID:

6686

Source:

Print

Author:

Samuel Richardson

Editor:

John Carroll

Title:

Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1964

Vol:

n/a

Page:

247

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 247, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6686, accessed: 30 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter from Richardson to Lady Bradshaigh, October 1753

   
   
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