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Record 5814

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confessing that far from being delighted by King John, she "never read the Kings".'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader: Macaulay
Age Unknown
Gender Female
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Unknown/NA
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: William Shakespeare
Title: [plays]
Genre: Drama
Form of Text: Print: Book, Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5814  
Source - Print  
  Author: Jacqueline Pearson
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1999
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 64
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 64, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5814, accessed: 25 April 2024

Additional comments:

?See William Morris, Memoirs of life and correspondence of Hannah Moore (1834), Vol 1, p. 234.?

 

 

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