Record Number: 7027
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however he rambles into a chimerical world into which I have too often [wand]ered - and draws the usual conclusion that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Mar 1787
Country:Ireland
Timen/a
Place:city: Dublin
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:Female
Date of Birth:27 Apr 1759
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:governess then writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Ireland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Emile
Genre:Fiction, Unknown
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:7027
Source:Mary Wollstonecraft
Editor:Ralph M. Wardle
Title:Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
Place of Publication:New York
Date of Publication:1979
Vol:n/a
Page:145
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph M. Wardle (ed.), Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, (New York, 1979), p. 145, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7027, accessed: 22 November 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, March 1787