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Record 28264

Reading Experience:

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.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Aug 1766 and 23 Aug 1766
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 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: 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

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28264  
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: 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

Additional comments:

Carter was by this time famous as a writer and translator (of Epictetus).

 

 

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