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Record 138

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
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:Thomas Moore
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 28 May 1779
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Poet
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: unknown
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
Moore's wife
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Maria Edgeworth
Title: [novels]
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 138  
Source - Print  
  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=138, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

See Llanover (ed.) "Life and Correspondence of Mrs Delany" Vol. III, p.137, 162.

 

 

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