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Record 20686

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Until: 6 Oct 1817
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
specific address: Great Russell St
   
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:Anne Romilly
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1773
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: n/a
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: nee Garbett

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [n/a]
Title: Quarterly Review
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 20686  
Source - Print  
  Author: Anne Romilly
  Editor: Samuel Henry Romilly
  Title: Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1936
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 179
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anne Romilly, Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818 (London, 1936), p. 179, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20686, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Year of birth a guess: AR was married in 1798, aged about 24

 

 

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