| Evidence: | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Letters; Hume's "History of England"; Hooke's "Roman History"; and Conyers Middleton's "Life of Cicero" ... She also ... studied music theory in Diderot's treatise ...' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1765 and 12 Jun 1772 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Frances Burney |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 13 Jun 1752 |
| 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: | Plutarch |
| Title: | Lives |
| Genre: | Classics, History, Biography, Politics |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | In English translation |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4520 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Margaret Anne Doody | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Frances Burney: The Life in the Works | |
| Place of Publication: | New Brunswick, NJ | |
| Date of Publication: | 1988 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 396 n.6 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Margaret Anne Doody, Frances Burney: The Life in the Works (New Brunswick, NJ, 1988), p. 396 n.6, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4520, accessed: 30 May 2023 | |
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