Record Number: 3041

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed most heartily at the Reading of it. I believ it is true, for I verely think I know the Gent. & Lady that occasioned it, indeed it is sweetly wrote & I hope will shew both sexes how right it is to marry upon a good foundation.

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1740 and 31 Dec 1740

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Grantham, Lincolnshire
specific address: Belton House, near Grantham
location in dwelling: home

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Anne Cust

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1694

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Wife of baronet, land-owner

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

Daughter (probably)

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Richardson

Title:

Pamela

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

3041

Source:

Print

Author:

Caroline Cust

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Some account of the Cust family

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1923

Vol:

n/a

Page:

165

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Caroline Cust, Some account of the Cust family, (London, 1923), p. 165, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=3041, accessed: 25 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None