Reflections from Dallas

Immersing the Network in Time: From the Where to the When of Print Reading

“…24 In the Reflections she sounds almost peevish in stressing at one moment that she has "scarce a moment free from the necessary engagement of Business and Bodily Labours" and declaring at the next: "Sometime I must needs have on Sundays." 25 Sunday was clearly Talbot's favorite day. "London has its quiet hours," she writes, "for people who keep out of the impertinent racket of it."…”

“…"When I have spare time," she states, "I shall gladly spend it in reading, with Reverence and Attention." 27 The concentration she lavishes on books on Sundays is affirmed in one of her few published essays, which describes a young woman of privilege passing a workman repairing a roof. Why, she asks rhetorically, would such a woman envy such a man?…”