Evidence: | '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she finds "too democratical" but praises as "exprest with decency and moderation" and "very prettily written".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Carter |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 16 Dec 1717 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Classicist / Bluestocking |
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: | Helen Maria Williams |
Title: | various books |
Genre: | Unknown |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6234 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Jacqueline Pearson | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation | |
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 142 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Jacqueline Pearson, Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation (Cambridge, 1999), p. 142, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6234, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
See Montagu Pennington (ed.) Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Montagu (1817) vol. 3, p. 333. |
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