| Evidence: | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound learning" of "Dr Shuckford's Connection".' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Carter |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1717 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Classicist / bluestocking |
| 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: | Dr Shuckford |
| Title: | Dr Shuckford's Connection |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5817 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 138 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 138, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5817, accessed: 21 March 2023 | |
| See Montagu Pennington (ed) Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Montagu. Vol II, p. 237. |
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