Record Number: 5971
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a conversation about imaginative literature with the Bishop of Llandaff. He "recommended the Reading these Arabian inventions as lively pictures of the government, religion, manners, prejudices of the eastern nations, & further talked on them as genuine translations from the Arabic. I own I was entertained with them in this light."'
Century:1700-1799
Date:19 Feb
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1758
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Diplomat's daughter and civil servant's wife
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Les mille et une nuits
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5971
Source:John Brewer
Editor:James Raven
Title:The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader'
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:n/a
Page:240
Additional Comments:
Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor. Date 19 July 1780.
Citation:
John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader', (Cambridge, 1996), p. 240, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5971, accessed: 19 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Brewer is quoting from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum, HM 31201
