Record Number: 20586
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to him when he returned home tired from the House of Commons, and marking from his dictation those passages he deemed of importance'.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 3 Jan 1798 and 29 Oct 1818
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: London
specific address: Great Russell Street
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1773
Socio-Economic Group:Gentry
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Her husband, Sir Samuel Romilly
Additional Comments:
nee Garbett
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[legal briefs]
Genre:Law
Form of Text:Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
owned by her husband
Source Information:
Record ID:20586
Source:Anne Romilly
Editor:Samuel Henry Romilly
Title:Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1936
Vol:n/a
Page:23
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Anne Romilly, Samuel Henry Romilly (ed.), Romilly-Edgeworth Letters 1813-1818, (London, 1936), p. 23, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20586, accessed: 02 November 2024
Additional Comments:
year of birth is a guess - she was married at the age of around 24 in Jan 1798