Record Number: 12287
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: Oct 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:1789
Socio-Economic Group:Royalty / aristocracy
Occupation:Daughter of the 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:unknown
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsunclear whether text was a translation or read in the Spanish original
Provenancen/a
Source Information:
Record ID:12287
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:3
Additional Comments:
Letter from Wortley Montagu to Mrs. Hewet. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing Reprint of 1906 edition published by J.M.Dent.
Citation:
Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters from the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1709 to 1762, (London, 1906), p. 3, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12287, accessed: 11 November 2024
Additional Comments:
None