Record Number: 28379

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from the collection of sublime sentences which you have so ably made the divine Clarissa apply to in her deepest distresses. 'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seems composed with a pious spirit; but I own calling them Psalms disappointed me. I never met with any composition, either as paraphrase or imitation of those divine compositions, that I liked; they come so infinitely short of the true sublime, that I should rather chuse a mere human composition in any other shape. 'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antagonist, which I had read before I left London, but forgot to return you [sic]. They made me laugh: a great merit to us splenetic folks!'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1750 and 14 Jul 1750

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Time

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Place:

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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:

Anne Donnellan

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

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Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

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Religion:

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Country of Origin:

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Country of Experience:

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Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

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Additional Comments:

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Samuel Richardson

Title:

Clarissa

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28379

Source:

Print

Author:

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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:

4

Page:

7-8

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (ed.), Correspondence of Samuel Richardson [...] Selected from the original manuscripts, bequeathed by him to his family , (London, 1804), 4, p. 7-8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28379, accessed: 16 February 2025

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Additional Comments:

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