| Evidence: | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manners obsolete, & I felt fidgeted at the repetitions not being 15, yet surely it is wonderfully wrought."' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Apr 1792 and 30 Apr 1792 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England (?) | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Anna Larpent |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1758 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Daughter of a diplomat and wife of a civil servant |
| 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 |
| Author: | Samuel Richardson |
| Title: | Clarissa |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 5996 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 230 | |
| Additional comments: | Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor. |
| Citation: | John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader' (Cambridge, 1996), p. 230, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5996, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Brewer gets his information from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum HM 31201 . |
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