| Evidence: | 'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were written by an author of this country and (excepting the enchantments) are a real representation of the manners here.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1689 and 10 Mar 1718 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1689 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Daughter of the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull. Wife of the British Ambassador to Constantinople. |
| 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 |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | Arabian Tales |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | French and English translations appeared in the early eighteenth-century. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 12630 | |
| 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: | 156 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Wortley Montagu to her sister, the Countess of Mar. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing's 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), n/a, p. 156, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12630, accessed: 24 September 2023 | |
| Letter was written from Constantinople. I believe here Wortley Montagu is referring to One Thousand and One Nights, more commonly known as the Arabian Nights. |
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