With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor].
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt].
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Aphra Behn, 'Epitaph on William Fairfax'.
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Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton
Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that in her younger
days Mrs. Behn's novels were as currently upon the toilette as the works of Miss Edgeworth at
present; and described with some humour her own surprise when the book falling into her
hands after a long interval of years, and when its contents were quite forgotten, she found it
impossible to endure at the age of fourscore what at fifteen she, like all the fashionable world
of the time, had perused without an idea of impropriety."'
Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that in her younger
days Mrs. Behn's novels were as currently upon the toilette as the works of Miss Edgeworth at
present; and described with some humour her own surprise when the book falling into her
hands after a long interval of years, and when its contents were quite forgotten, she found it
impossible to endure at the age of fourscore what at fifteen she, like all the fashionable world
of the time, had perused without an idea of impropriety."'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
