| Evidence: | 'The extracts you sent me of "The Thompson" correspondence are charming. I am happy to see that "we" have lost none of our powers of writing; "[italics] dat [end italics]" would be a great pity; and trust some day that all these invaluable specimens of her epistolary genius will be gathered together, and printed, and set forth, as models of letter-writing to posterity'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Italy? | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | William Gell |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Apr 1777 |
| Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
| Occupation: | archaeologist |
| 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: | |
| Title: | [letters from Princess Caroline] |
| Genre: | n/a |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 18474 | |
| 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: | II | |
| Page: | 185 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-In-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 185, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18474, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| Chronology unclear as ever with Charlotte Bury's diary and included letters - before 1820. Evidence elsewhere in the diary suggests that 'Thompson' refers to Princess Caroline |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)