| Evidence: | 'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read aloud for the amusement of large circles of the first and most creditable in society"; in old age she tried to re-read it but, affected by the changing cultural climate, found it too embarrassing to continue.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| Listener: | Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | unknown |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Large groups of the 'first and most creditable in society'. |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Aphra Benn |
| Title: | Delphine |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6171 | |
| 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: | 22 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women's Reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 22, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6171, accessed: 04 December 2023 | |
| See John Gibson Lockhart's The life of sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh, 1902-03). |
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