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Record 26446

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (1816): 'Lady Harrowby and Susan [Lady Harrowby's daughter] are arrived, and I repose my cares upon them, knowing that to Messrs. Standish and Montagu at least they are everything. They are all in the library reading out loud and shouting with laughter over the two new reviews.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1816 and 31 Dec 1816
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: county: Staffordshire
location in dwelling: Library
   
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:

Reading Group:Lady Harrowby and daughter (?and 'Messrs. Standish and Montagu')
Age Unknown
Gender Unknown
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: 'two new reviews'
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: 1816
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 26446  
Source - Print  
  Author: Harriet Countess Granville
  Editor: F. Leveson Gower
  Title: Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1894
  Vol: 1
  Page: 88
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Harriet Countess Granville, F. Leveson Gower (ed.), Letters of Harriet Countess Granville 1810-1845 (London, 1894), 1, p. 88, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=26446, accessed: 01 May 2024

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