Record Number: 8584

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put that mortifying paragraph into the Morning Post about the "lovely Grecian" merely for her refusing to visit her!'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

unknown

Country:

England

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:

13 Jun 1752

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

writer

Religion:

Christian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke.

Genre:

Ephemera, doggerel verses in a newspaper

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

23 December, 1779

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

8584

Source:

Print

Author:

Fanny Burney

Editor:

Betty Rizzo

Title:

The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

Place of Publication:

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Date of Publication:

2003

Vol:

IV

Page:

47

Additional Comments:

Letter from Fanny Burney to Susanna Elizabeth Burney dated 9-20 April [1780], from Bath.

Citation:

Fanny Burney, Betty Rizzo (ed.), The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003), IV, p. 47, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=8584, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

editor's note: 'FB perhaps alludes to doggerel verses in the Morning Post of 23 Dec. 1779.' The 'lovely Grecian' was Sophy Streatfield.