Evidence: | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807:
'This morning I got up between 8 and 9, read 500 lines of Milton's Paradise Lost, walked in the garden, played upon a Russian Bilboquet Willy brought me last night, and pride myself upon my candour in confessing this last occupation to you.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 23 Jul 1807 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London specific address: Devonshire House |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | John Milton |
Title: | Paradise Lost |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 25742 | |
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: | 199 | |
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. 199, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25742, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
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