Record Number: 7038
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with benevolent satisfaction - yet, I cannot help viewing them, I mean the first pair - as if they were my inferiors - inferiors because they could find happiness in a world like this.'
Century:1700-1799
Date:Until: 30 Sep 1790
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
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:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Paradise Lost
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:7038
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:195
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph M. Wardle (ed.), Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, (New York, 1979), p. 195, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=7038, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, Sept 1790