Evidence: | '[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I put you in the other class [...] it is only an appellation I give them out of Contrast to myself & other more liberal minded women who like Mary Wollstonecraft stand up for the rights of the Sex & wear our shackles with dignity.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Sep 1809 and 31 Jul 1810 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
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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) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Title: | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Politics, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8627 | |
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: | 56 | |
Additional comments: | Letter to Lady Holland. Douglass dates it 1810 after 14 July. |
Citation: | Lady Caroline Lamb (n?e Ponsonby), Paul Douglass (ed.), The Whole Disgraceful Truth: Selected Letters of Lady Caroline Lamb (New York, 2006), n/a, p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8627, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
An earlier letter to the Marquis of Hartington indicates that Lady Caroline read The Rights of Woman in September the previous year. |
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