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Record Number: 7043


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinating &c, all of the feminine gender, than I expected. Some of the sentiments, it is true, are rather obscurely expressed; but if you continue to write you will imperceptibly correct this fault...'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1792 and 31 Dec 1792

Country:

England

Time

morning: Saturday

Place:

city: London

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:

Mary Wollstonecraft

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

27 Apr 1759

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Hays

Title:

Cursory Remarks

Genre:

Other religious, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned
sent by Miss Hays


Source Information:

Record ID:

7043

Source:

Print

Author:

Mary Wollstonecraft

Editor:

Ralph M. Wardle

Title:

Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft

Place of Publication:

New York

Date of Publication:

1979

Vol:

n/a

Page:

223

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph M. Wardle (ed.), Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (New York, 1979), p. 223, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=7043, accessed: 19 April 2024


Additional Comments:

Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Hays, late 1792.

   
   
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