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Record 28018

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749: 'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by what I have read of it, I think Mr Garrick is very much obliged to the author for shewing the world how much he is in the right for refusing it.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Mar 1749 and 13 Apr 1749
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:

Reader:J[?ane] Collier
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: 'play'
Genre: Fiction, Drama
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28018  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
  Title: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1804
  Vol: 2
  Page: 65
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family (London, 1804), 2, p. 65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28018, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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