Record Number: 5395

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotated. On the flyleaf she write a general impression, beginning [...] "I ask pardon for scribling in Y[ou]r La[dyshi]ps Book. The Author is so disingenuous & inconsistent yt no lover of Truth can read it without a just Indignation.'"

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

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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:

Mary Astell

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Pierre Bayle

Title:

Pensees diverses vol 1

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

4th ed., 2 vols., 1704

Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5395

Source:

Print

Author:

H. J. Jackson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

2001

Vol:

n/a

Page:

64-65

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, (New Haven, 2001), p. 64-65, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5395, accessed: 01 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None