Record Number: 9900

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Sterne has published two little volumes, called, "Sentimental Travels". They are very pleasing, though too much dilated, and infinitely preferable to his tiresome "Tristram Shandy", of which I never could get through three volumes. In these there is great good nature and strokes of delicacy.'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

12 Mar 1768

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:

Horace Walpole

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

24 Sep 1717

Socio-Economic Group:

Royalty / aristocracy

Occupation:

Author, politician, patron of the arts

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:

Laurence Sterne

Title:

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

9900

Source:

Print

Author:

Horace Walpole

Editor:

W.S. Lewis

Title:

Horace Walpole's Correspondence with George Montague

Place of Publication:

New Haven

Date of Publication:

1941

Vol:

2

Page:

255

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Horace Walpole, W.S. Lewis (ed.), Horace Walpole's Correspondence with George Montague, (New Haven, 1941), 2, p. 255, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=9900, accessed: 11 March 2025

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Additional Comments:

Sourced from 'Sterne, The Critical Heritage' ed. by Alan B. Howes (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1974) p.202