| Evidence: | 'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: presumably at home, while he drew | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Type of Experience (Listener): |
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| Listener: | Humphry Repton |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 21 Apr 1752 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | Landscape Gardener |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 137 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation. | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 172 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain 1750-1835. A Dangerous Recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 172, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=137, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
| See "Letters of Anna Seward" (Edinburgh, 1811) Vol. I, p128 |
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