Record Number: 5985
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit to Windsor Castle in 1792: "I did it", she wrote, "that they might have their observation raised when we carried them there. There is a great difference between showing and seeing - the one is merely Corporeal the other unites the mental to the bodily powers and lays in a stock of ideas". [reading aloud for didactic purposes].
Century:1700-1799
Date:19 Aug 1792
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
Larpent's two sons
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Tour through the whole island of Great Britain
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5985
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:241
Additional Comments:
Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor. Date 19 August 1792.
Citation:
John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader', (Cambridge, 1996), p. 241, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5985, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Brewer is drawing from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum, HM 31201
