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Record 12230

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but indeed it?s very much above a Novel.?
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1778 and 6 May 1780
Country: unknown
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:Anna Maria Lawes
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: daughter of a diplomat
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Frances Burney
Title: Evelina
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: London, 1778
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12230  
Source - Print  
  Author: Fanny Burney
  Editor: Betty Rizzo
  Title: The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney
  Place of Publication: London: Oxford University Press
  Date of Publication: 2003
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 104
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Fanny Burney, Betty Rizzo (ed.), The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (London: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 104, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12230, accessed: 24 April 2024

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