Evidence: | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I entreat you to like, as I do, exceedingly. -- It is in two volumes, Sermons to Young Women. [italics]You[end italics] are in, and handsomely in, but not [italics]so[end italics] handsomely as you would have been, had the author known you better.' |
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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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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Catherine Talbot |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 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 |
Author: | James Fordyce |
Title: | Sermons to Young Women |
Genre: | Sermon, Essays / Criticism, Biography, Conduct books |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In two volumes, [c.]1766 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28264 | |
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: | 141 | |
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. 141, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28264, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Carter was by this time famous as a writer and translator (of Epictetus). |
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