Evidence: | 'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever attempted to swallow. Truth, nature, life, and sense, there is, I dare say, in abundance, but I cannot discover a particle of imagination, taste, wit, or sensibility; and without these latter qualities, I never could feel much pleasure in any book. In a novel especially, such materials are expected, and, if not found, it is exceedingly disappointing to be made to pick a dry bone, when one thinks one is going to enjoy a piece of honeycomb'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Susan Ferrier |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1782 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | author |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | n/a |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Maria Edgeworth |
Title: | Patronage |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18471 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charlotte Bury | |
Editor: | A. Francis Steuart | |
Title: | Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1908 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 176 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), 2, p. 176, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18471, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Letter is undated and chronology is unclear - it appears in the diary after the death of Princess Charlotte in 1817 but refers to two 1814 novels |
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