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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

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Thoresby
county: Nottinghamshire

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, Lady Wortley Montagu

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:

unknown

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

unclear whether text was a translation or read in the Spanish original

Provenance

n/a


Source Information:

Record ID:

12287

Source:

Print

Author:

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: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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