Record Number: 9710
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you have not yet met with it, only read, as a sample, the first book of his "Tuscular disputations", "de contemrenda morte", and I think you will agree with me, that with the addition of Christianity to confirm his supposition, and rectify a few mistakes in them, and the knowledge of the true state of the universe, no doctrine can be more perfect than his; and that half the modern books on the subject might have been spared, had the writers of them, before they began, read this dialogue.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:unknown
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Shirley
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:Dec 1776
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Daughter of a banker, writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Tuscular Disputations
Genre:Classics, History
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:9710
Source:H M Bowdler
Editor:n/a
Title:Fragments in prose and verse by Miss Elizabeth Smith, lately deceased, with some account of her life and character
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1809
Vol:n/a
Page:44
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
H M Bowdler, Fragments in prose and verse by Miss Elizabeth Smith, lately deceased, with some account of her life and character, (London, 1809), p. 44, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9710, accessed: 02 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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