Record Number: 13942
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, and a kind of natural courtesy; in short, they are not mob, an animal which Smollet most emphatically says he detests in its head, midriff, and members; and, in this point, I do not greatly differ with him. You would wonder how many of the genteeler class live here. They are not rich to be sure; so much the better for us; For "Where no contiguous palace rears its head/To shame the meanness of the humble shed" people do very well, and keep each other in countenance."'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1755 and 27 Mar 1791
Country:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
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(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1755
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:Wife/widow of Church of Scotland minister then author
Religion:Church of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The traveller
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:13942
Source:Anne Grant
Editor:n/a
Title:Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1807
Vol:2
Page:190-1
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Anne Grant, Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, (London, 1807), 2, p. 190-1, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13942, accessed: 24 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Date range given as birth to date of letter; title from external source.
