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Record 9244

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I have just read, are delicious, and make me quite anxious to go on'.
Century: 1700-1799
Date: Between 28 Apr 1789 and 31 Dec 1789
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: city: London
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Mary Berry
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 16 Mar 1763
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: writer/editor
Religion: Anglican
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Erasmus Darwin
Title: The Botanic Garden (first thirty lines)
Genre: Poetry, Natural history, Agriculture / horticulture / husbandry
Form of Text: Print: Unknown
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 9244  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Lady Theresa Lewis
  Title: Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1865
  Vol: 1
  Page: 162
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Lady Theresa Lewis (ed.), Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the year 1783 to 1852 (London, 1865), 1, p. 162, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9244, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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