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Record 28055

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, did you ever call Pigmalion a fool, for making an image and falling in love with it -- and do you know that you and I are two Pigmalionesses? Did not Mr Richardson ask us for some traits of his good man's character? And did not we give him some? And has he not gone and put these and his own charming ideas into a book and formed a Sir Charles Grandison? [...] I have seen some parts of this amiable book, but I tell you this as a profound secret, which I have not named even to Lady Grey, who is therefore much puzzled why we cannot find time to read Amelia, when she knows we read en famille after supper.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Nov 1751 and 23 Dec 1751
Country: England
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: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: Samuel Richardson
Title: Sir Charles Grandison
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28055  
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 Eliazbeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1809
  Vol: 2
  Page: 64-65
  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 Eliazbeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1809), 2, p. 64-65, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28055, accessed: 29 March 2024

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