Record Number: 7014
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Baroness de Montoliere's novel "Caroline de Litchfield". The first she pronounced "wonderfully clever", and it may well have proved helpful to her as a teacher; the last she described as "One of the prettiest things I have ever read", and it perhaps suggested that her own life could serve as the basis of a sentimental novel'.
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1786 and 31 Dec 1787
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:city: Mitchelstown
Type of Experience(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:27 Apr 1759
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:governess, then writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Caroline de Litchfield
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsin French
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:7014
Source:Mary Wollstonecraft
Editor:Ralph M. Wardle
Title:Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
Place of Publication:New York
Date of Publication:1979
Vol:n/a
Page:33
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph M. Wardle (ed.), Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, (New York, 1979), p. 33, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7014, accessed: 25 May 2024
Additional Comments:
evidence from Wardle's intro.