Record Number: 5892

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

unknown

Time

n/a

Place:

other location: at sea, in a storm

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:

Janet Schaw

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Jan

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

unknown

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

unknown

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

Schaw's cousin

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Lord Kames

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

5892

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

92

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation., (Cambridge, 1999), p. 92, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5892, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles MacLean Andrews (eds), Janet Schaw, Journal of a lady of quality... in the years 1774-76 (New Haven, 1934), p. 256.