| Evidence: | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! What colouring displayed throughout the works of that admirable author! and yet, for want of time, or opportunity, I have not read his "Fairy Queen" through in series, or at a heat, as I may call it'. |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1750 and 31 Dec 1750 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Susanna Highmore |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| 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: | Edmund Spenser |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6467 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Samuel Richardson | |
| Editor: | John Carroll | |
| Title: | Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1964 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 161-2 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 161-2, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6467, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Letter to from Richardson Susanna Highmore, June 1750 |
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