Record Number: 9226

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the divine Eumaeus is so worthy a man, that I overlook the unlucky circumstance of his being a hogherd' [Letter to Elizabeth Carter, October 1746]

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Until: 31 Oct 1746

Country:

England

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:

Catherine Talbot

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

unknown

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

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Homer

Title:

Odyssey

Genre:

Classics, Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

trans. by Alexander Pope

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

9226

Source:

Print

Author:

Claudia Thomas

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers

Place of Publication:

Carbondale and Edwardsville

Date of Publication:

1994

Vol:

n/a

Page:

33

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Claudia Thomas, Alexander Pope and his Eighteenth-Century Women Readers, (Carbondale and Edwardsville, 1994), p. 33, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9226, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None