Record Number: 29098

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'My natural disposition was very volatile, and my apprehension very quick; and as my faculties opened, I delighted much in books of a very contrary nature and tendency to those which had engaged my attention in my childhood. I had a near relation, who, notwithstanding his having been favoured in his youth, had slighted his soul's mercies, and pursued lying vanities. He kept house in the town; and through him, myself, and my sisters, had opportunities of obtaining plays and romances, which I read with avidity. I also spent much time at his house as to be introduced into amusements very inconsistent with the implicity of truth, and my former religious impressions; so that my state was indeed dangerous, and but for the interposition of Divine Providence, I had been left to pursue courses which must have terminated deplorably. I also read history, was fond of poetry, and had a taste for philosophy; so that I was in the way to embellish my understanding (as is the common phrase), and to become accomplished to shine in conversation; which might have tended to feed the vain proud nature, render me pleasing to those who were in it, and make me conspicuous in the world.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1727 and 1787

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Dudley
county: Worcestershire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Catherine Payton

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Mar 1727

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Quaker minister

Religion:

Quaker

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

unknown unknown

Title:

unknown

Genre:

Fiction, Drama, History, Poetry, Philosophy

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29098

Source:

Print

Author:

Catherine Phillips

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Memoirs of Catherine Phillips: To which are added some of her epistles

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1797

Vol:

n/a

Page:

7-8

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Catherine Phillips, Memoirs of Catherine Phillips: To which are added some of her epistles, (London, 1797), p. 7-8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29098, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None