| Evidence: | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803:
'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you will allow is better than a [italics]novel[end italics] one. I have been [italics]re[end italics]-reading Mrs. Piozzi and Boswell. The latter I think very entertaining, and it is so long since I had read it that I had almost forgotten it. I have hardly patience with Boswell's conceit and pride and wish he would fancy himself a secondary personage [French], as he almost always prefers telling one what he thought and did, to Johnson, and he is too uninteresting to make it ever excusable.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Oct 1803 and 9 Nov 1803 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London specific address: Devonshire House |
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| Reader: | Lady Harriet Cavendish |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | Aug 1785 |
| 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: | n/a |
| Author: | Hester Piozzi |
| Title: | biography of Samuel Johnson |
| Genre: | Biography, Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 25720 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer | |
| Title: | Hary-o: The Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 67 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer (ed.), Hary-o: The Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809 (London, 1940), p. 67, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25720, accessed: 23 April 2024 | |
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