| Evidence: | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752:
'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but his [sic] poetic justice I think very bad: he kills a good woman to make way for one of the worst, in my opinion, I ever read of.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1751 and 11 Feb 1752 | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anne Donnellan |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Eliza Haywood |
| Title: | The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28388 | |
| 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: | 4 | |
| Page: | 56 | |
| 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), 4, p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28388, accessed: 24 April 2024 | |
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