Record Number: 12285
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very extraordinary, but I know not whether she has not added a few [italics] agremens [italics] of invention to them: however, there is some truth. I have been told, in particular, that the history of the fair unfortunate Madame de Barbesierre is so, by people who could not be suspected of romancing. Don't you think that the court of England would furnish stories as entertaining? Say nothing of my malice; but I cannot help wishing that Madame de Noyer would turn her thoughts a little that way. I fancy she would succeed better than the authoress of the "New Atalantis". I am sure I like her method much better, which has, I think, hit that difficult path between the gay and the severe, and is neither too loose, nor affected by pride.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: Sep 1709
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Thoresby
county: Nottinghamshire
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1689
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Daughter of fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
nee Lady Mary Pierrepoint.Known by this name until her 1712 marriage to Edward Wortley Montagu.
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean
Genre:Politics
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1709
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12285
Source:Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu
Editor:R. Brimley Johnson
Title:Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1906
Vol:n/a
Page:2
Additional Comments:
Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint
Citation:
Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762, (London, 1906), p. 2, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12285, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Lady Mary was reading the first part of the "New Atlantis", as is made clear in a later letter.