Record Number: 20065
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [italics] Teddington [end italics] I open'd it, judging it was some business that Mrs [italics] Meade [end italics] wanted to have transacted; when, O shameful! it was a Love-letter to the Child, who was but sixteen Years of Age, and she is four Years older than I am, with a Direction to him to meet her at a Coffee-house in [italics] London [end italics], and an Offer of Marriage to him'.
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: 31 Dec 1746
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
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:1708
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:clergyman's wife, divorced
Religion:Anglican
Country of Origin:Ireland
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[letter to LP's son, Jack]
Genre:letter
Form of Text:Manuscript: Letter
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceborrowed (other)
read, though addressed to her son
Source Information:
Record ID:20065
Source:Laetitia Pilkington
Editor:A.C. Elias
Title:Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington
Place of Publication:Athens GA
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:I
Page:295
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 295, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20065, accessed: 18 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Date of birth 1708 or 1709. Assuming Jack (b 1730) is the son in question, date must be 1746.
