| Evidence: | 'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in them. What a knowledge of the human heart!' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 1756 and 31 Dec 1756 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| 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 writer |
| 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: | Sarah Fielding |
| Title: | Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters in David Simple |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | publ. 1747 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 6925 | |
| 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: | 330 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Samuel Richardson, John Carroll (ed.), Selected Letters of Samuel Richardson (Oxford, 1964), p. 330, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6925, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Letter to Sarah Fielding, Dec 1756 |
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