Record Number: 20020

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'd her from the Vulgar, stood reading the paper I had stuck up, with Regard to writing Letters and Petitions.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1747 and 31 Dec 1748

Country:

France or Germany?

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London
specific address: Laetitia Pilkington's shop, possibly in St James's

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:

anon

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

France or Germany?

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

a lady, claiming aristocratic pedigree and great ill-use

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Title:

[notice in her shop window]

Genre:

Ephemera

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Sheet

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

20020

Source:

Print

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Editor:

A.C. Elias

Title:

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington

Place of Publication:

Athens GA

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

I

Page:

267

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 267, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=20020, accessed: 13 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

The long story occasioned by this act of reading is possibly wholly untrue