Record Number: 17576
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely bewitched me - I was such an old Ass as to sit up last night till three o'clock, reading - and then snuffed out my candle, and went to bed by daylight., The perfect originality of the plan upon which the story is founded, enchants me - and difficult as such an idea was to developpe, Mde de Genlis I think has done justice to her own design - a felicity many authors fail in attaining. - Oh - (But now another day has passed, and I have finished the three volumes of Alphonsine - and the [underlined] last [end underlining] disgraces the two first - Such a pack of higgledy piggledy stuff, without interest, finish, or any attempt at probability, I never read - Whip the woman!-'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 25 Jun 1807 and 27 Jun 1807
Country:England
Timen/anight
Place:city: London
specific address: Upper Seymour St
(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:29 Aug 1772
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsin three volumes
Provenanceborrowed (other)
borrowed from Miss James
Source Information:
Record ID:17576
Source:Sarah Harriet Burney
Editor:Lorna J. Clark
Title:Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, the
Place of Publication:Athens GA / London
Date of Publication:1997
Vol:n/a
Page:84
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Sarah Harriet Burney, Lorna J. Clark (ed.), Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney, the, (Athens GA / London, 1997), p. 84, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=17576, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
letter to Charlotte Barrett 26th June 1807