| Evidence: | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency" of the works of Peter Pindar because of "the amusement I derive from them".' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 21 Feb 1755 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | Wife/widow of a Church of Scotland Minister |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | George Gordon, Lord Byron |
| Title: | [poems] |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5810 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 87 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 87, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5810, accessed: 07 December 2023 | |
| See Grant's Memoirs and Correspondence. Vol II, p. 235. |
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