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Record 5971

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a conversation about imaginative literature with the Bishop of Llandaff. He "recommended the Reading these Arabian inventions as lively pictures of the government, religion, manners, prejudices of the eastern nations, & further talked on them as genuine translations from the Arabic. I own I was entertained with them in this light."'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: 19 Feb
Country: England
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:Anna Larpent
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1758
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Diplomat's daughter and civil servant's wife
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Les mille et une nuits
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 5971  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Brewer
  Editor: James Raven
  Title: The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader'
  Place of Publication: Cambridge
  Date of Publication: 1996
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 240
  Additional comments: Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor. Date 19 July 1780.

Citation: John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 240, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5971, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Brewer is quoting from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum, HM 31201

 

 

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