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Record 6448

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I had read them some part of the story, which I had begun without their knowing it, used to come in to my little closet every night with - "Have you any more of Pamela, Mr R...?"'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 1 Jan 1739 and 31 Dec 1739
Country: England
Time: evening
Place: location in dwelling: Richardson's closet
   
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:Samuel Richardson
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 19 Aug 1689
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: printer and author
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
wife and Elizabeth Midwinter
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Samuel Richardson
Title: Pamela
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown, manuscript of his novel
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6448  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Richardson
  Editor: John Carroll
  Title: Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1964
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 41
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 41, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6448, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to Aaron Hill, 1741

 

 

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