| Evidence: | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols. - Histoire de la Revolution, par Thiers, 10. vols. - Botta's Storia d'Italia, continued from Guicciardini; there are ten vols: I have read only 6 yet. Memoires de l'Abbe Morellet, very entertaining. Memoires de Mde Dubarry, very naughty, but very amusing, & she the best natured of the vicious, envious, spightful Court - and sundry other vols, dotted about, & lent me by one body or other. - I hope you are edified, Sister Emma.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1832 and 9 Feb 1833 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Florence | ||||||||||
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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: | Italy |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Marie de Rabutin - Chantal, marquise de Sevigne |
| Title: | Letters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and her friends |
| Genre: | Letters |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | an English translation, 1811 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 17928 | |
| 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: | 383 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, The (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 383, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17928, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
| Letter to Emma Wilbraham, 9-11 February 1833. SHB had originally read these in French. |
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