Record Number: 12630
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were written by an author of this country and (excepting the enchantments) are a real representation of the manners here.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1689 and 10 Mar 1718
Country:Unknown
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(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 the fifth Earl of Kingston upon Hull. Wife of the British Ambassador to Constantinople.
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Arabian Tales
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsFrench and English translations appeared in the early eighteenth-century.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12630
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:156
Additional Comments:
Letter from Wortley Montagu to her sister, the Countess of Mar. Taken from the Kessinger Publishing's 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), n/a, p. 156, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12630, accessed: 09 May 2025
Additional Comments:
Letter was written from Constantinople. I believe here Wortley Montagu is referring to One Thousand and One Nights, more commonly known as the Arabian Nights.
