Record Number: 5394
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about the defects of the author's style and his overreliance on sentences beginning with the conjunctions 'and' or 'but' ... by underlining every single instance of a sentence beginning with 'and ' in the two volumes."
Century:1700-1799
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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:Male
Date of Birth:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Scholar
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:History of Manchester
Genre:History, Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details2 vols; 1771; 1775
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:5394
Source:H. J. Jackson
Editor:n/a
Title:Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
Place of Publication:New Haven
Date of Publication:2001
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Page:64
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven, 2001), p. 64, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=5394, accessed: 29 March 2024
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