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Record 19893

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] shewed it to all the Noblemen at [italics] White's [end italics], as means to engage them to subscribe to me, which, to oblige him, many of them did; and, to make it public, Mr [talics] Cibber [end italics] inserted it in a Pamphlet of his own called the [italics] Egotist, or Colley upon Cibber [end italics]'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Until: 31 Dec 1739
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
specific address: White's Club
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Colley Cibber
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 11 Jun 1671
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Laetitia Pilkington
Title: To Mr Cibber
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned
given by L Pilkington

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 19893  
Source - Print  
  Author: Laetitia Pilkington
  Editor: A.C. Elias
  Title: Mempirs of Laetitia Pilkington
  Place of Publication: Athens GA
  Date of Publication: 1997
  Vol: I
  Page: 136
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Mempirs of Laetitia Pilkington (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 136, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19893, accessed: 29 April 2024

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