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Record 28042

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751: 'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on the whole, and yet it so far amuses me that I am glad to take it in rather than any other.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 May 1751 and 8 Jun 1751
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cuddesdon
county: Oxfordshire
   
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:Catherine Talbot
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 21 May 1721
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: The Idler
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28042  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Montagu Pennington
  Title: A Series of Letters Between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1809
  Vol: 2
  Page: 33
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Montagu Pennington (ed.), A Series of Letters Between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1809), 2, p. 33, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28042, accessed: 23 April 2024

Additional comments:

Source ed. notes that text could not have been Johnson's Idler, which did not appear until 1758; see p.33.

 

 

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