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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Record Number: 5814


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confessing that far from being delighted by King John, she "never read the Kings".'

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Macaulay

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

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



Text Being Read:

Author:

William Shakespeare

Title:

[plays]

Genre:

Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book, Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

5814

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

64

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835, (Cambridge, 1999), p. 64, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5814, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

?See William Morris, Memoirs of life and correspondence of Hannah Moore (1834), Vol 1, p. 234.?

   
   
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