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Record 22958

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment read a French Comedy to divert herself, and these very Holy days her Amusement has been to make Sophy & sometimes Hester help her to act the two or three 1st Scenes of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme: add to this she has a real Taste for English Poetry, and when Mr Johnson repeated Dryden's Musick Ode the other day, She said She had got the whole poem, & Pope's too upon the same Subject by Heart for her own Amusement'.
Century:
Date: Until: 20 Jan 1779
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:Susanna Arabella Thrale
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 23 May 1770
Socio-economic group: Gentry
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: daughter of Mrs Thrale

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Moliere [pseud.]
Title: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: in French
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 22958  
Source - Print  
  Author: Hester Lynch Thrale
  Editor: Katharine C. Balderston
  Title: Thraliana
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1951
  Vol: I
  Page: 361
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 361, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22958, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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