| Evidence: | Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797):
'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us storys. The last thing she read us was Voltaire's "enfant prodige," it is beautiful. Only think how good my dear dear aunt was to me last night; I took some pills and she came and read me a very interesting story while I took them.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1797 and 30 Nov 1797 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: 'Hardwick' | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Reader: | Harriet Ponsonby |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | Countess of Bessborough |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Included Lady Harriet Cavendish (b.1785). |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Voltaire |
| Title: | L'Enfant prodige |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 25707 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer | |
| Title: | Hary-o: The Letters of Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 5 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer (ed.), Hary-o: The Letters of Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809 (London, 1940), p. 5, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25707, accessed: 29 April 2024 | |
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