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Record 11234

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Letter from Maria Edgeworth to A.L.Barbauld, dated 26/2/1806, tells about this younger brother, who has just left the 'College of Dublin' and 'he has just finished a poem called the "Transmigrations of Indur" - the plan taken from your tale in Evenings at Home.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1792 and 26 Feb 1806
Country: Ireland
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

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:C.S. Edgeworth
Age Unknown
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: Ireland
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: John Aikin
Title: Evenings at Home
Genre: Children's Lit, Conduct books, Science
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 11234  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Anna Letitia Le Breton
  Title: Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including letters and notices of her family andfriends, by her great niece.
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1874
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 115
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anna Letitia Le Breton (ed.), Memoir of Mrs. Barbauld, including letters and notices of her family andfriends, by her great niece. (London, 1874), p. 115, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11234, accessed: 16 April 2024

Additional comments:

Co-author Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin)

 

 

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