| Evidence: | 'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasised even in her private diary that she did not read "the original Greek... I think the precaution necessary!". ' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1769 and 31 Dec 1769 | ||||||||||
| Country: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Frances Burney |
| Age | Unknown |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1752 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Thucydides |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Classics, History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5821 | |
| 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: | 71 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835 (Cambridge, 1999), p. 71, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5821, accessed: 24 September 2023 | |
| See Annie Raine Ellis (ed), The Early diary of Frances Burney 1768-1778 (1889) Vol 1 p. 63. |
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