Record Number: 5811
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency" of the works of Peter Pindar because of "the amusement I derive from them".'
Century:1700-1799
Date:unknown
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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:Unknown
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:21 Feb 1755
Socio-Economic Group:Clergy (includes all denominations)
Occupation:Wife/widow of a Church of Scotland Minister
Religion:Church of Scotland
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[unknown]
Genre:Satire
Form of Text:Print: Unknown
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5811
Source:Jacqueline Pearson
Editor:n/a
Title:Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Date of Publication:1999
Vol:n/a
Page:87
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Jacqueline Pearson, Women's reading in Britain, 1750-1835. A dangerous recreation, (Cambridge, 1999), p. 87, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5811, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
See Grant's Memoirs and Correspondence. Vol I, p. 225.