Evidence: | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Nov 1798 and 14 Dec 1798 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Unknown/NA |
Occupation: | n/a |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Thomas Robert Malthus |
Title: | Essay on the Principle of Population |
Genre: | Social Science, Economics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1798 |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
Record ID: | 8836 | |
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Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Lady Theresa Lewis | |
Title: | Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1865 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 74 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journal and Correspondence of Miss Berry From the Year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 2, p. 74, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8836, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
In letter of 19 November 1798 to same friend, Mary Berry refers to 'the "Essay on Population" which Mr. Wrangham left with you' (see p.73 in source), so book apparently not read as group, but separately by the two readers, Berry having lent it to the other. |
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