Evidence: | '[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of the Earthquake was very dismal, and that of the Dwarf very comical; 'tis better Sport to hear of such Things than to read that stupid Book about [italics] Sympathy & Poetical Language [end italics] written by the Man there with a [italics] Woman's [end italics][ Name - Doctor [italics] Betty [end italics] as you call him - She meant Dr [italics] Beattie [end italics] whose book Mrs Cumyns - her Governess had been foolish enough to put into her hands'.
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 31 Dec 1777 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Susan Thrale |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
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: | daughter of Mrs Thrale |
Author: | James Beattie |
Title: | Essays on Poetry and Music |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) belonged to her governess, Mrs Cumyns |
Record ID: | 22831 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hester Lynch Thrale | |
Editor: | Katharine C. Balderston | |
Title: | Thraliana | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1951 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 219 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22831, accessed: 31 May 2023 |
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