Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old story.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Read 'The British Recluse'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot finds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot Print: Book
'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", in which Talbot finds a number of objectionable qualities including "irreligion" and "the pride and sauciness" of the heroine. Their "favourite" among women novelists was Sarah Fielding, many of whose works they read and discussed.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter Print: Book
'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us with the insipid: Her [italics] Female Spectators [end italics] are a collection of trite Stories, delivered to us in stale and worn-out Phrases'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Serial / periodical
Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752:
'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but his [sic] poetic justice I think very bad: he kills a good woman to make way for one of the worst, in my opinion, I ever read of.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Donnellan Print: Book
