Record Number: 6925

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart!'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Dec 1756 and 31 Dec 1756

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

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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 writer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Sarah Fielding

Title:

Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

publ. 1747

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6925

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:

330

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 330, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=6925, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter to Sarah Fielding, Dec 1756