Record Number: 5818

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound learning" of "Dr Shuckford's Connection".'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

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:

Elizabeth Carter

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1717

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Classicist / bluestocking

Religion:

n/a

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:

Hooker

Title:

Laws of ecclesiastical polity

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5818

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

138

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835, (Cambridge, 1999), p. 138, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5818, accessed: 26 April 2025

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Additional Comments:

See Montagu Pennington (ed) Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Montagu. Vol II, p. 237. She finds it unreadable, but she must at least have read a few pages to decide this.