| Evidence: | '[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not except from this general rule; she has done a plaguey deal of mischief, and no good, by meddling in literary matters, and I wish to heaven she would renounce pen, ink, and paper for ever more.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Matthew Lewis |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 9 Jul 1775 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | correspondent of Charlotte Bury |
| Author: | Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel, Philosophy, Letters |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18512 | |
| 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: | 328 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Charlotte Bury, A. Francis Steuart (ed.), Diary of a Lady-in-Waiting, The (London, 1908), II, p. 328, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18512, accessed: 23 September 2023 | |
| A letter of uncertain date from Lewis to Charlotte Bury - possibly 1818. |
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