| Evidence: | '. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put that mortifying paragraph into the Morning Post about the "lovely Grecian" merely for her refusing to visit her!' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Frances Burney |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 13 Jun 1752 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 8584 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Fanny Burney | |
| Editor: | Betty Rizzo | |
| Title: | The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford: Clarendon Press | |
| Date of Publication: | 2003 | |
| Vol: | IV | |
| Page: | 47 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter from Fanny Burney to Susanna Elizabeth Burney dated 9-20 April [1780], from Bath. |
| Citation: | Fanny Burney, Betty Rizzo (ed.), The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003), IV, p. 47, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8584, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| editor's note: 'FB perhaps alludes to doggerel verses in the Morning Post of 23 Dec. 1779.' The 'lovely Grecian' was Sophy Streatfield. |
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