Evidence: | 'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting whatever, to the poet's great disgrace, has crept in that is improper for a woman's ear".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
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Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Rishton |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
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) |
Frances Burney and her sisters |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edmund Spenser |
Title: | The Faerie Queene |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5822 | |
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: | 106 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation. (Cambridge, 1999), p. 106, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5822, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Annie Raine Ellis (ed), The Early diary of Frances Burney 1768-1778 (1889) Vol 1 p. 243. |
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