Reading [ Reading & Writing ]
… act, for instance in some of the book clubs, particularly those popular with men. These were places where talking, drinking and other forms of conviviality almost totally overshadowed the practice of reading, as suggested by the 1788 … poem ‘The Country Book Club’ authored by Charles Shillito: Thus, meeting to dispute, to fight, to plead, To smoke, to drink—do anything but read— The club—with stagg’ring steps, yet light of heart, Their taste for learning shown, and … popular epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson ’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa (1748) to Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778), apart from displaying the action and characters’ through exchanges in a letter form, …
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