| Evidence: | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 3 August 1807:
'I walked an hour and read 50 pages of Bossuet ths morning before breakfast, which to a person who gets up at half past six is easy. I hope you admire my triumphant style. Yet my journal has most of the merit of these good deeds, for I do not know that my industry or Bossuet's eloquence had half the weight as the idea of being able to boast in my writing today had with me.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 3 Aug 1807 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning | ||||||||||
| Place: | county: Yorkshire specific address: Castle Howard |
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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: | Bossuet |
| Title: | [possibly] 'Sur l'histoire universelle' |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 25743 | |
| 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: | 203 | |
| 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. 203, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25743, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| In letter of 1 August 1807 to the Dowager Countess Spencer, Harriet Cavendish asks: 'Do you recollect Bossuet's discourse "Sur l'histoire universelle' and do you think I shall be as much pleased with it as I am afraid I shall, that is, most excessively?' (see p.202 in source). |
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