Evidence: | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and instruction. I have been this day weeping over the seventh volume of Clarissa, as if I had attended her dying bed, and assisted at her funeral procession. O may my latter end be like hers!' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 15 Jan 1755 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Edwards |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
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: | Samuel Richardson |
Title: | Clarissa |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Volume 7 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28376 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | |
Title: | Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1804 | |
Vol: | 3 | |
Page: | 111-112 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family (London, 1804), 3, p. 111-112, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28376, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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