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Record Number: 25746


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 12 August 1807: 'I have been, since I last wrote, going on with my [italics]usual[end italics] regularity. I do not think I have ever been in bed after 7, and I am half way through the last volume of Bossuet, with which I am quite delighted.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Aug 1807 and 12 Aug 1807

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

county: Yorkshire
specific address: Castle Howard

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


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Lady Harriet Cavendish

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

Aug 1785

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Bossuet

Title:

n/a

Genre:

History

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

25746

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer

Title:

Hary-o: The Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1940

Vol:

n/a

Page:

205

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Sir George Leveson Gower and Iris Palmer (ed.), Hary-o: The Letters of Lady Harriet Cavendish 1796-1809, (London, 1940), p. 205, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=25746, accessed: 29 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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