Evidence: | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & I think I shall like it. I tried Pallas's Travels in Russia lately: but there was too much about progressive improvements in agriculture, & manufactuaries amongst the grown-up Muscovite babes, & I got tired, as I easily do of all that relates to half civilised nations. Give me a whole Savage or no Savage at all.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 1 Mar 1816 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Chelsea College |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Sarah Harriet Burney |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Aug 1772 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Pierre-Simon Pallas |
Title: | Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire in 1793 and 1794 |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | trans. by F.W. Blagdon |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 17697 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Sarah Harriet Burney | |
Editor: | Lorna J. Clark | |
Title: | Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The | |
Place of Publication: | Athens GA / London | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 201-2 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 201-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17697, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
letter to Charlotte Barrett, 1st March 1816. Pallas wrote other volumes on Russia too, so it is not certain which SHB was reading. |
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