Record Number: 5995
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental novel "Marienne" by Pierre Marivaux.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:1 Jul 1780
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: King's Thorpe
county: Northamptonshire
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1758
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Daughter of a diplomat and wife of a civil servant
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Lady friends
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Marienne
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5995
Source:John Brewer
Editor:James Raven
Title:The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader'
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:n/a
Page:242
Additional Comments:
Editors James Raven, Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor.
Citation:
John Brewer, James Raven (ed.), The practice and representation of reading in England, essay entitled 'Reconstructing the reader', (Cambridge, 1996), p. 242, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5995, accessed: 05 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Brewer gets his information from Larpent's diary, Huntington Museum HM 31201 .