Record Number: 19932

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us with the insipid: Her [italics] Female Spectators [end italics] are a collection of trite Stories, delivered to us in stale and worn-out Phrases'.

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

From: 1 Apr 1744

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: London

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:

Laetitia Pilkington

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1708

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

clergyman's wife, divorced; poet

Religion:

Anglican

Country of Origin:

Ireland

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:

Eliza Haywood

Title:

Female Spectator, The

Genre:

Fiction, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

published April 1744 to May 1746

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19932

Source:

Print

Author:

Laetitia Pilkington

Editor:

A.C. Elias

Title:

Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington

Place of Publication:

Athens GA

Date of Publication:

1997

Vol:

I

Page:

227

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Laetitia Pilkington, A.C. Elias (ed.), Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington, (Athens GA, 1997), I, p. 227, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19932, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Date of birth 1708 or 1709.