Record Number: 19561

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Mary Leadbeter! - Yes indeed I do well remember You! not Leadbeter then, but a pretty demure Lass, standing a timid Auditor while her own Verses were read by a kind Friend but a keen Judge'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1784 and 31 Dec 1784

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: Charles St, James's Square
home of Edmund Burke

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

passive in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Listener:

Mary Shackleton

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1758

Socio-Economic Group:

Gentry

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Ireland

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

George Crabbe

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Mary Shackleton

Title:

[verses]

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19561

Source:

Print

Author:

George Crabbe

Editor:

Thomas Faulkner

Title:

Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1985

Vol:

n/a

Page:

201

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

George Crabbe, Thomas Faulkner (ed.), Selected Letters and Journals of George Crabbe, (Oxford, 1985), p. 201, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19561, accessed: 12 May 2025

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Additional Comments:

Assistant editor Rhonda Blair. Letter from George Crabbe to Mary Leadbeter, nee Shackleton. Reader may have been Burke?