Record Number: 5810

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency" of the works of Peter Pindar because of "the amusement I derive from them".'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

21 Feb 1755

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Wife/widow of a Church of Scotland Minister

Religion:

Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

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:

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Title:

[poems]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5810

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

87

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation, (Cambridge, 1999), p. 87, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5810, accessed: 19 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Grant's Memoirs and Correspondence. Vol II, p. 235.