Record Number: 12288
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will better direct you. My study at present is nothing but dictionaries and grammars...I find the study so diverting, I am not only easy, but pleased with the solitude that indulges it.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: 8 Aug 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:[dictionaries]
Genre:Reference / General works
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12288
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:14
Additional Comments:
Letter from Wortley Montagu to Miss Anne Wortley. 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. 14, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12288, accessed: 13 May 2025
Additional Comments:
None
