Record Number: 28218
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:] 'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian translation of Euripides. -- A pretty good one, I fancy, though, what in Italian is peculiarly provoking, rugged and inharmonious. The Phenicians, and the Medea, filled me with horror [comments further] [...] The Orestes amused me very well, for its turn is rather comic; and I am now breaking my heart over the Hecuba.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1760 and 31 Jan 1760
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:city: Lambeth
Type of Experience(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:21 May 1721
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:n/a
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:Hecuba
Genre:Classics, Drama, Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsIn Italian translation
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28218
Source:n/a
Editor:Montagu Pennington
Title:A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1809
Vol:2
Page:313-314
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Montagu Pennington (ed.), A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787, (London, 1809), 2, p. 313-314, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28218, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
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