| Evidence: | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':]
'I shall fancy if I write thus Journal-wise, by bits and scraps, that I am Dean Swift, and you Stella and Mrs Dingley, for we are reading those three new volumes, in which he writes to them in that style [...] I love him in those letters very well'. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Aug 1766 and 23 Aug 1766 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Catherine Talbot and family |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Unknown |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer and family |
| 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: | Jonathan Swift |
| Title: | Letters |
| Genre: | Autobiog / Diary |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In new three-volume edition |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28261 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 3 | |
| Page: | 138 | |
| 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), 3, p. 138, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28261, accessed: 30 March 2023 | |
| Talbot lived in the household of her stepfather, Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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