Record Number: 28330
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:] 'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a syllable of Mr Duncombe's performance, till Miss Sally happened to rummage it out among other things for my entertainment that evening which I spent without you at North-End. I have since got it. I hope I am not bribed by the compliment to me, but I think it a very pretty poem. I indeed very much dislike the title [...] there can be no such word as Feminiad with an [italics]i[end italics] after the [italics]n[end italics] formed from femina; the Battiad, the Causidicad, and other foolish things which have come out with that termination in imitation of the Dunciad, have given people a surfeit of, and even an aversion to, "omne quod exit in ad." But what say the ladies to it? I wish it might be a means to persuade them to publish, though without names. If they would join to give us a miscellany, it would be a better collection than most we have had, and do honour both to themselves and the sex.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Between 1 Jan 1754 and 29 May 1754
Country:England
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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:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
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:The Feminiad
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
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Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28330
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Editor:Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Title:Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1804
Vol:3
Page:82
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family , (London, 1804), 3, p. 82, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28330, accessed: 18 July 2024
Additional Comments:
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