| Evidence: | 'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will better direct you. My study at present is nothing but dictionaries and grammars...I find the study so diverting, I am not only easy, but pleased with the solitude that indulges it.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 8 Aug 1709 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Thoresby county: Nottinghamshire |
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| Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1789 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Daughter of the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | nee Lady Mary Pierrepoint. Known by this name until her 1712 marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu. |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | [dictionaries] |
| Genre: | Reference / General works |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12288 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | |
| Editor: | R. Brimley Johnson | |
| Title: | Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1906 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 14 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to Miss Anne Wortley. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint of 1906 edition published by J.M.Dent. |
| Citation: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762 (London, 1906), p. 14, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12288, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
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