| Evidence: | 'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with a poem in my life".' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1768 and 31 Dec 1768 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Frances Burney |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1752 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | writer |
| Religion: | Unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Homer |
| Title: | Iliad |
| Genre: | Classics, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | trans. by Alexander Pope |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9228 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Claudia Thomas | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers | |
| Place of Publication: | Carbondale and Edwardsville | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 69 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Claudia Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1994), p. 69, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9228, accessed: 24 September 2023 | |
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