Record Number: 28389

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752: 'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading some of your last scenes [...] I have made some little marks in the books I had, and as you seem to desire to shorten, I have in some places thrown out words that I thought did not strengthen the sense, &c. &c. [comments further on aspects of characterisations etc] [...] I had wrote thus far, when I recollected I was writing down my own scattered incoherent thoughts, when I had a new book of yours to read; so down went the pen, and I never quitted your book till I finished it (nine o'clock at night). I have run over it very quick, from my own eagerness, and your desire of having it soon, and can only say, my dear Mr Richardson, do not marry the angel Clementina to the hare-brained Count de Belvidere.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1752 and 9 Nov 1752

Country:

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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:

Sir Charles Grandison

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Manuscript: Unknown

Publication Details

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Provenance

borrowed (other)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28389

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:

75-78

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. 75-78, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28389, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

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