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Record 8600

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Nov 1805 and 9 Dec 1805
Country: England
Time: morning
Place: city: Stanmore
specific address: The Priory of Lord and Lady Abercorn
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Lady Caroline Lamb
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 13 Nov 1785
Socio-economic group: Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation: socialite, novelist, influential member of the Whig political elite
Religion: Christian
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
William Lamb
Additional comments: (n?e Ponsonby)

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Thomas Newton
Title: Dissertations of the Prophecies with the Bible
Genre: Other religious, Essays / Criticism, Philosophy
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 8600  
Source - Print  
  Author: Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby)
  Editor: Paul Douglass
  Title: The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb
  Place of Publication: New York
  Date of Publication: 2006
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 23-24
  Additional comments: Letter to Lady Spencer, 9 December 1805

Citation: Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), Paul Douglass (ed.), The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (New York, 2006), p. 23-24, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8600, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

Though Lamb's letter does not specify, it is likely William Lamb and Lady Caroline took turns reading aloud to each other, making them both readers and and listeners.

 

 

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