Record Number: 4545

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

1797

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Frances Burney

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

1752

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Ann Radcliffe

Title:

The Italian

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

1797

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

4545

Source:

Print

Author:

Margaret Anne Doody

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Frances Burney: The Life in the Works

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ

Date of Publication:

1988

Vol:

n/a

Page:

424 n.59

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Margaret Anne Doody, Frances Burney: The Life in the Works, (New Brunswick, NJ, 1988), p. 424 n.59, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4545, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

None