Record Number: 6235

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] displayed great interest in this literary foremother, and when the 1751 edition of her work appeared, they were struck by her "most remarkable clear understanding and excellent heart".'

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:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

16 Dec 1717

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Classicist / Bluestocking

Religion:

unknown

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:

Charlotte Trotter Cockburn

Title:

works

Genre:

Fiction, Drama

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1751 edition of her works

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

6235

Source:

Print

Author:

Jacqueline Pearson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

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

Place of Publication:

Cambridge

Date of Publication:

1999

Vol:

n/a

Page:

142

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Jacqueline Pearson, Women reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation, (Cambridge, 1999), p. 142, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=6235, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

See Montagu Pennington (ed.) Series of letters between Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot (1808), vol 1, p. 279.