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'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Nov 1805 and 9 Dec 1805 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Stanmore specific address: The Priory of Lord and Lady Abercorn |
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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) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n?e Caroline Ponsonby |
Author: | Thomas Sherlock |
Title: | Sermons |
Genre: | Sermon |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8601 | |
Source - | ||
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=8601, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
The Sherlock to whom Lady Caroline refers is unclear; however, if not Thomas Sherlock's Sermons, it could be Martin Sherlock's New Letters from an English Traveller (1781). |
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