Record Number: 27988
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[in prefatory essay by A. L. Barbauld] From Samuel Richardson's account of his childhood, up to about age 13: 'As a bashful and not forward boy, I was an early favourite with all the young women of taste and reading in the neighbourhood. Half a dozen of them, when met to work with their needles, used, when they got a book they liked, and thought I should, to borrow me to read to them; and both mothers and daughters used to be pleased with the observations they put me upon making.'
Century:1700-1799
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Reader: Age:Child (0-17)
Gender:Male
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Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
Female friends and neighbours
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Form of Text:Print: Book
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Record ID:27988
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Editor:Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Title:The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1804
Vol:1
Page:xxxix
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Citation:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the Original Manuscripts Bequeathed by him to his Family, (London, 1804), 1, p. xxxix, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27988, accessed: 28 September 2024
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