Record Number: 13950
Reading Experience:
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Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the Rights of Man, and abominate those of Woman. Think then how I am prepared to receive your friend H.M.W.?s* new publication; though I admire her style, and confess that nobody embellishes absurdity more ingeniously. I am greatly inclined too to respect the purity of religious principles. Yet when I think of the associates with whom her political bigotry has connected her, I think I hear the Syrian leper entreating the prophet?s permission to bow a little occasionally in the house of their god Rimmon. [footnote] *Helen Maria Williams before she forsook her country and her principles'.
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between Jan 1795 and 11 Apr 1795
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:1755
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:Wife/widow of Church of Scotland minister then author
Religion:Church of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:unknown
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:13950
Source:Anne Grant
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Title:Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1807
Vol:3
Page:28
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Citation:
Anne Grant, Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, (London, 1807), 3, p. 28, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=13950, accessed: 13 March 2025
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