Evidence: | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:]
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assemblies, or ingenious conversations, by Hariri, the son of Himam; there are fifty of them, six just translated by a gentleman of Cambridge, and we are undone to know whether the whole fifty can be equally dull and unedifying. Did you ever read Noah? it seems to me even in the translation delightfully fine.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jul 1767 and 10 Oct 1767 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Lambeth | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Church of England |
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: | Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri |
Title: | Six assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians |
Genre: | Other religious |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon [...] for Merrill, 1767. |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28272 | |
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: | 156 | |
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. 156, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28272, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Talbot lived in the household of her stepfather, Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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